CVE-2005-0208

N/A Unknown

Published: May 02, 2005 Modified: April 16, 2026

Description

The HTML parsing functions in Gaim before 1.1.4 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via malformed HTML that causes "an invalid memory access," a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-0473.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000933

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch

http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/?id=12

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110935655500670&w=2

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/14386

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch Vendor Advisory

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-03.xml

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch Vendor Advisory

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/795812

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch Third Party Advisory US Government Resource

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:049

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_36_sudo.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-215.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch Vendor Advisory

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/426078/100/0/threaded

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12660

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10477

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000933