Arbitrary Heap Memory Overwrite Vulnerability in Gaim-Encryption Plugin

CVE-2003-0163 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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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