CVE-2005-0966

Severity Score

8.2

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

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.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

Low

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

Partial

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2005-04-04 CVE Reserved
2005-04-04 CVE Published
2024-08-07 CVE Updated
2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CAPEC

References (12)

URL	Tag	Source
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111238715307356&w=2	Mailing List
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13003	Vdb Entry
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19937	Vdb Entry
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19939	Vdb Entry
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9185	Signature

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
http://secunia.com/advisories/14815	2018-10-19
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=235&release_id=317750	2018-10-19

URL	Date	SRC
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/index.php?id=14	2018-10-19
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:071	2018-10-19
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_36_sudo.html	2018-10-19
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-365.html	2018-10-19
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/426078/100/0/threaded	2018-10-19

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Rob Flynn Search vendor "Rob Flynn"		Gaim Search vendor "Rob Flynn" for product "Gaim"				1.2.0 Search vendor "Rob Flynn" for product "Gaim" and version "1.2.0"		-		Affected