CVE-2003-0163 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the Gaim-Encryption GAIM plugin versions 1.15 and earlier. An attacker can exploit this by sending a specially crafted message with a negative length parameter, leading to a crash due to arbitrary heap memory overwrite. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, and is easily exploitable over the network without authentication. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.13CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gaim-encryption:gaim-encryption:1.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.14CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gaim-encryption:gaim-encryption:1.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.15CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gaim-encryption:gaim-encryption:1.15:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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