cve-2004-0891-00

Summary MSN SLP buffer overflow
Date 2004-10-19
CVE Number CVE-2004-0891
Discovered By Gaim
Fixed In Release 1.0.2

Description

Buffer overflow. memcpy was used without checking the size of the buffer before copying to it. Additionally, a logic flaw was causing the wrong buffer to be used as the destination for the copy under certain circumstances.

Mitigation

Correct the logic to select the correct buffer, and add bounds checking to prevent malformed messages causing a buffer overflow.

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