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CVE-2005-0473
The HTML parsing functions in Gaim before 1.1.3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via malformed HTML…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 3.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 11% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The HTML parsing functions in Gaim before 1.1.3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via malformed HTML that causes "an invalid memory access," a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-0208.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
Published
- 19 years later
· 19 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.5% · top 11% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
13
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10212 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- FLSA:158543 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- VU#523888 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- GLSA-200503-03 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- gaim-html-dos(19381) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20050225 [USN-85-1] Gaim vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- MDKSA-2005:049 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRAKEx_transferred
- CLA-2005:933 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CONECTIVAx_transferred
- http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/index.php?id=11 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 14322 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- RHSA-2005:215 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 12589 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- SUSE-SA:2005:036 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2005-0474 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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