CVE-2004-0784

N/A Unknown

Published: October 20, 2004 Modified: April 16, 2026

Description

The smiley theme functionality in Gaim before 0.82 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the filename of the tar file that is dragged to the smiley selector.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/?id=1

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch Vendor Advisory

http://www.fedoranews.org/updates/FEDORA-2004-278.shtml

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch Vendor Advisory

http://www.fedoranews.org/updates/FEDORA-2004-279.shtml

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch Vendor Advisory

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200408-27.xml

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-400.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17144

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10008

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/?id=1