CVE-2004-0785: Rob Flynn Gaim

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 5.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple buffer overflows in Gaim before 0.82 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via (1) Rich Text Format (RTF) messages, (2) a long hostname for the local system as obtained from DNS, or (3) a long URL that is not properly handled by the URL decoder.

Affected products

• Rob Flynn Gaim: version 0.10 only; version 0.10.3 only; version 0.50 only; version 0.51 only; version 0.52 only; version 0.53 only; …

Published 2004-10-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.