Gaim Vulnerability
| Title | Remote DoS on receiving malformed HTML |
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| Date | 2 April 2005 |
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| CVE Name | CAN-2005-0965 |
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| Discovered By | Jean-Yves Lefort |
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| Summary | Client crash when receiving specific malformed HTML |
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| Description | The gaim_markup_strip_html function in Gaim 1.2.0, and possibly earlier versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a string that contains malformed HTML, which causes an out-of-bounds read. |
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| Fixed in Version | 1.2.1 |
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| Fix | The function was changed to not allow the out-of-bounds read. |
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