CVE-2003-0163

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

05/05/2003

Last modified:

03/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0

5.00

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:gaim-encryption:gaim-encryption:1.13:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:gaim-encryption:gaim-encryption:1.14:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:gaim-encryption:gaim-encryption:1.15:::::::*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2003-0163

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools