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Fedora Core 3: FEDORA-2005-161 Major Gaim Communication Problems

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Calendar Grey February 22, 2005
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Tackling two vulnerability concerns in Gaim 1.1.3 on Fedora Core 3—guarantee your communications are protected and confidential!
Updated package.

Summary

Gaim allows you to talk to anyone using a variety of messaging

protocols, including AIM (Oscar and TOC), ICQ, IRC, Yahoo!,

MSN Messenger, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, Napster, and Zephyr. These

protocols are implemented using a modular, easy to use design.

To use a protocol, just add an account using the account editor.

Gaim supports many common features of other clients, as well as many

unique features, such as perl scripting and C plugins.

Gaim is NOT affiliated with or endorsed by America Online, Inc.,

Microsoft Corporation, or Yahoo! Inc. or other messaging service

providers.

- FC3

* Fri Feb 18 2005 Warren Togami 1:1.1.3-2

- 1.1.3 including two security fixes

CAN-2005-0472 Client freezes when receiving certain invalid messages

CAN-2005-0473 Client crashes when receiving specific malformed HTML

8d6769683169023fd8323035b1d9d26e SRPMS/gaim-1.1.3-1.FC3.src.rpm

9ac4558ca6bfdfd41e13750f016a8efd x86_64/gaim-1.1.3-1.FC3.x86_64.rpm

3be098b7089f18c1cca11f224fa52357

x86_64/debug/gaim-debuginfo-1.1.3-1.FC3.x86_64.rpm

7389d43a54380e816043c654ca1df1eb i386/gaim-1.1.3-1.FC3.i386.rpm

d0a68862543f562a967cc6a401660bfe

i386/debug/gaim-debuginfo-1.1.3-1.FC3.i386.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can

launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.

fedora-announce-list@redhat.com

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Name: gaim
Version: 1.1.3
Release: 1.FC3
Summary: A Gtk+ based multiprotocol instant messaging client

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