security flaw
Published Oct 21, 2004
10.0
HIGHCVSS 2.0
EPSS 6.86%
Description
Buffer overflow in the MSN protocol handler for gaim 0.79 to 1.0.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an "unexpected sequence of MSNSLP messages" that results in an unbounded copy operation that writes to the wrong buffer.
Affected products
No data.
Configuration 1
- 0.10
- 0.10.3
- 0.50
- 0.51
- 0.52
- 0.53
- 0.54
- 0.55
- 0.56
- 0.57
- 0.58
- 0.59
- 0.59.1
- 0.60
- 0.61
- 0.62
- 0.63
- 0.64
- 0.65
- 0.66
- 0.67
- 0.68
- 0.69
- 0.70
- 0.71
- 0.72
- 0.73
- 0.74
- 0.75
- 0.78
- 0.82
- 0.82.1
- 1.0
- 1.0.1
Configuration 2
- n/a
- 1.4
- 9.0
- 9.1
- 10.0
- current
- 4.1
- 4.1
No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (13 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 6.86% (0.06862) | 93.85th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 6.86% (0.06862) | 93.19th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 30, 2025 | 5.44% (0.05439) | 89.19th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 29, 2025 | 13.23% (0.13233) | 90.22th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 19, 2025 | 5.44% (0.05439) | 88.93th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 7.26% (0.07255) | 90.98th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 17, 2024 | 8.12% (0.08119) | 94.31th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Nov 5, 2024 | 10.30% (0.10298) | 95.15th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Sep 28, 2023 | 8.82% (0.08815) | 93.80th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 11.89% (0.11889) | 94.39th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 7.54% (0.07544) | 92.83th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 7.54% (0.07544) | 92.13th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 7.54% (0.07544) | 81.06th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
No CWE recorded.
References (13)
- http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/?id=9 x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200410-23.xml vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-604.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATVendor Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2004-0891 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2188 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1617316 Issue Tracking
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17786 vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17787 vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17790 vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2004-0891
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11790 vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2004-0891
- https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-8-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
Change history (0)
No recorded changes yet.