CVE-2005-0966

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

02/05/2005

Last modified:

03/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0

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

Base Score: 6.40 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

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