CVE-2004-0006

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2004-01-26
Bugzilla:
1617131: CVE-2004-0006 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Multiple buffer overflows in Gaim 0.75 and earlier, and Ultramagnetic before 0.81, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via (1) cookies in a Yahoo web connection, (2) a long name parameter in the Yahoo login web page, (3) a long value parameter in the Yahoo login page, (4) a YMSG packet, (5) the URL parser, and (6) HTTP proxy connect.

Find out more about CVE-2004-0006 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Linux 9 RHSA-2004:032 2004-01-26
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 RHSA-2004:033 2004-01-26
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 RHSA-2004:045 2004-02-09

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Steffan Esser for finding and reporting these issues and Jacques A. Vidrine for providing initial patches.

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