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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200503-03
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Severity: Normal
Title: Gaim: Multiple Denial of Service issues
Date: March 01, 2005
Bugs: #83253
ID: 200503-03
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Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Gaim which could allow a
remote attacker to crash the application.
Background
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Gaim is a full featured instant messaging client which handles a
variety of instant messaging protocols.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 net-im/gaim < 1.1.4 >= 1.1.4
Description
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Specially crafted SNAC packets sent by other instant-messaging users
can cause Gaim to loop endlessly (CAN-2005-0472). Malformed HTML code
could lead to invalid memory accesses (CAN-2005-0208 and
CAN-2005-0473).
Impact
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Remote attackers could exploit these issues, resulting in a Denial of
Service.
Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.
Resolution
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All Gaim users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-im/gaim-1.1.4"
References
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[ 1 ] CAN-2005-0208
http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0208
[ 2 ] CAN-2005-0472
http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0472
[ 3 ] CAN-2005-0473
http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0473
Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200503-03.xml
Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@xxxxxxxxxx or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.
License
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Copyright 2005 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).
The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
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