CVE-2005-0473: Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 3.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux: version 10.0 only; version 10.1 only
• Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux Corporate Server: version 3.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 4.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 4.0 only
• Rob Flynn Gaim: version 1.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.1.1 only; version 1.1.2 only

Published 2005-03-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.