[ GLSA 200506-11 ] Gaim: Denial of Service vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200506-11
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  Severity: Normal
     Title: Gaim: Denial of Service vulnerabilities
      Date: June 12, 2005
      Bugs: #95347
        ID: 200506-11

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Synopsis
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Gaim contains two remote Denial of Service vulnerabilities.

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 < 1.3.1 >= 1.3.1

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

Workaround
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There are no known workarounds 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-1.3.1"

References
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  [ 1 ] Gaim Vulnerability: Remote Yahoo! crash
        http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/?id=18
  [ 2 ] Gaim Vulnerability: MSN Remote DoS
        http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/?id=19
  [ 3 ] CAN-2005-1269
        http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1269
  [ 4 ] CAN-2005-1934
        http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1934

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-200506-11.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_at_gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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