GLSA 200503-03: Gaim: Multiple Denial of Service issues

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Severity:	normal
Title:	Gaim: Multiple Denial of Service issues
Date:	03/01/2005
Bugs:	#83253
ID:	200503-03

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Gaim which could allow a remote attacker to crash the application.

Background

Gaim is a full featured instant messaging client which handles a variety of instant messaging protocols.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
net-im/gaim	< 1.1.4	>= 1.1.4	All supported architectures

Description

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

Remote attackers could exploit these issues, resulting in a Denial of Service.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Gaim users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-im/gaim-1.1.4"

References

Availability

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?

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@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.