CVE-2005-0966 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2005-0966
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Description: The IRC protocol plugin in Gaim 1.2.0, and possibly earlier versions, allows (1) remote attackers to inject arbitrary Gaim markup via irc_msg_kick, irc_msg_mode, irc_msg_part, irc_msg_quit, (2) remote attackers to inject arbitrary Pango markup and pop up empty dialog boxes via irc_msg_invite, or (3) malicious IRC servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by injecting certain Pango markup into irc_msg_badmode, irc_msg_banned, irc_msg_unknown, irc_msg_nochan functions.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/19939 http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/19937 SUSE http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_36_sudo.html SAID Secunia Advisory: SA14815 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-365.html MANDRAKE http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:071 FEDORA http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/426078/100/0/threaded CONFIRM http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=235&release_id=317750 http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/index.php?id=14 BUGTRAQ http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=111238715307356&w=2 BID 13003

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