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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200506-11 |
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Severity: Normal |
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Title: Gaim: Denial of Service vulnerabilities |
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Date: June 12, 2005 |
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Bugs: #95347 |
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ID: 200506-11 |
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Synopsis |
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Gaim contains two remote Denial of Service vulnerabilities. |
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Background |
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Gaim is a full featured instant messaging client which handles a |
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variety of instant messaging protocols. |
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Affected packages |
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected |
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1 net-im/gaim < 1.3.1 >= 1.3.1 |
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Description |
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Jacopo Ottaviani discovered a vulnerability in the Yahoo! file transfer |
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code when being offered files with names containing non-ASCII |
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characters (CAN-2005-1269). |
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Hugo de Bokkenrijder discovered a vulnerability when receiving |
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malformed MSN messages (CAN-2005-1934). |
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Impact |
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Both vulnerabilities cause Gaim to crash, resulting in a Denial of |
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Service. |
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Workaround |
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There are no known workarounds at this time. |
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Resolution |
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All Gaim users should upgrade to the latest version: |
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# emerge --sync |
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# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-im/gaim-1.3.1" |
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References |
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[ 1 ] Gaim Vulnerability: Remote Yahoo! crash |
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http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/?id=18 |
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[ 2 ] Gaim Vulnerability: MSN Remote DoS |
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http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/?id=19 |
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[ 3 ] CAN-2005-1269 |
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http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1269 |
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[ 4 ] CAN-2005-1934 |
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http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1934 |
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Availability |
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at |
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the Gentoo Security Website: |
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http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200506-11.xml |
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Concerns? |
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the |
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confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost |
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importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to |
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security@g.o or alternatively, you may file a bug at |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org. |
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License |
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Copyright 2005 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text |
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belongs to its owner(s). |
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The contents of this document are licensed under the |
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Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license. |
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0 |