CVE-2004-2589

CVE-2004-2589 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Gaim versions prior to 0.82, where a remote server can crash the application by sending an excessively long HTTP Content-Length header, leading to a memory allocation failure. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, and can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, resulting in a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there known Metasploit or ExploitDB modules, though it has garnered significant community discussion.