VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2003-0163

CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability1.04%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2003-05-05
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

decrypt_msg for the Gaim-Encryption GAIM plugin 1.15 and earlier does not properly validate a message length parameter, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a negative length, which overwrites arbitrary heap memory with a zero byte.

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