CVE-2005-0966: Rob Flynn Gaim

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The IRC protocol plugin in Gaim 1.2.0, and possibly earlier versions, allows (1) remote attackers to inject arbitrary Gaim markup via irc_msg_kick, irc_msg_mode, irc_msg_part, irc_msg_quit, (2) remote attackers to inject arbitrary Pango markup and pop up empty dialog boxes via irc_msg_invite, or (3) malicious IRC servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by injecting certain Pango markup into irc_msg_badmode, irc_msg_banned, irc_msg_unknown, irc_msg_nochan functions.

Affected products

• Rob Flynn Gaim: version 1.2.0 only

Published 2005-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.