Arbitrary Markup Injection and Denial of Service Vulnerabilities in Gaim IRC Protocol Plugin

CVE-2005-0966 · MEDIUM Severity

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

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.

Learn more about our Cis Benchmark Audit For Server Software.