CVE Catalog

CVE-2004-0784

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

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.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can remotely execute arbitrary commands on the victim's system, leading to full compromise of the application and potentially the entire system.

Recommendation

Immediately update Gaim to version 0.82 or later, which fixes this vulnerability.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS