Rob Flynn Gaim up to 0.82 denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Rob Flynn Gaim and classified as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing. This manipulation causes denial of service. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2004-2589. No exploit exists. The affected component should be upgraded.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Rob Flynn Gaim (Messaging Software) and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:

Gaim before 0.82 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long HTTP Content-Length header, which causes Gaim to abort when attempting to allocate memory.

The weakness was disclosed 08/26/2004 by infamous41md (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2004-2589 since 11/28/2005. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 14373 (Fedora Core 1 : gaim-0.82-0.FC1 (2004-278)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Fedora Local Security Checks and running in the context l.

Upgrading to version 0.82 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (17150), Tenable (14373), SecurityFocus (BID 11056†), OSVDB (9264†) and Secunia (SA12383†). The entries VDB-22313, VDB-22322 and VDB-22323 are pretty similar. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

Productinfo

Type

• Messaging Software

Vendor

• Rob Flynn

Name

• Gaim

Version

• 0.10
• 0.10.3
• 0.50
• 0.51
• 0.52
• 0.53
• 0.54
• 0.55
• 0.56
• 0.57
• 0.58
• 0.59
• 0.59.1
• 0.60
• 0.61
• 0.62
• 0.63
• 0.64
• 0.65
• 0.66
• 0.67
• 0.68
• 0.69
• 0.70
• 0.71
• 0.72
• 0.73
• 0.74
• 0.75
• 0.76
• 0.77
• 0.78
• 0.79
• 0.80
• 0.81
• 0.82

License

• commercial

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.1

VulDB Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Temp Score: 5.1
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Nessus ID: 14373
Nessus Name: Fedora Core 1 : gaim-0.82-0.FC1 (2004-278)
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Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
Status: 🔍

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Upgrade: Gaim 0.82

Timelineinfo

08/26/2004 🔍
08/26/2004 +0 days 🔍
08/26/2004 +0 days 🔍
08/26/2004 +0 days 🔍
08/27/2004 +1 days 🔍
08/27/2004 +0 days 🔍
08/28/2004 +0 days 🔍
12/31/2004 +125 days 🔍
11/28/2005 +332 days 🔍
03/09/2015 +3388 days 🔍
06/30/2018 +1209 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: securityfocus.com⛔
Researcher: infamous41md
Status: Confirmed
Confirmation: 🔍

CVE: CVE-2004-2589 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2004-2589
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-23467
X-Force: 17150 - Gaim HTTP Content-Length header denial of service
SecurityFocus: 11056
Secunia: 12383 - Slackware update for gaim, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 9264 - Gaim Content-Length Header DoS
SecurityTracker: 1011083

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/09/2015 16:55
Updated: 06/30/2018 09:11
Changes: 03/09/2015 16:55 (67), 06/30/2018 09:11 (9)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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