GLSA 200506-11: Gaim: Denial of Service vulnerabilities

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Severity:	normal
Title:	Gaim: Denial of Service vulnerabilities
Date:	06/12/2005
Bugs:	#95347
ID:	200506-11

Synopsis

Gaim contains two remote Denial of Service vulnerabilities.

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	< 1.3.1	>= 1.3.1	All supported architectures

Description

Jacopo Ottaviani discovered a vulnerability in the Yahoo! file transfer code when being offered files with names containing non-ASCII characters (CAN-2005-1269).

Hugo de Bokkenrijder discovered a vulnerability when receiving malformed MSN messages (CAN-2005-1934).

Impact

Both vulnerabilities cause Gaim to crash, resulting in a Denial of Service.

Workaround

There are no known workarounds at this time.

Resolution

All Gaim users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-im/gaim-1.3.1"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200506-11.xml

Concerns?

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