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Fedora Core 3: 2005-410 Advisory on Gaim DoS Vulnerability Issue

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Calendar Grey June 16, 2005
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Patch announcement for Fedora Core 3 resolving vulnerabilities and reliability concerns in gaim version 1.3.1.
More bug and denial of service fixes.

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.

More bug and denial of service fixes.

- 1.3.1 more bug fixes

CAN-2005-1269 CAN-2005-1934

- enable Message Notification plugin by default

290bcd97b27afcd71c802b72993250c5 SRPMS/gaim-1.3.1-0.fc3.src.rpm

3a6a13610fad43bdb784c376899647ba x86_64/gaim-1.3.1-0.fc3.x86_64.rpm

aaddc70a7dfdb9e03b7e90073174ea67

x86_64/debug/gaim-debuginfo-1.3.1-0.fc3.x86_64.rpm

fdfa1e0331281d07cad2911e1ff9945a i386/gaim-1.3.1-0.fc3.i386.rpm

090675e02fc726449b52e573426375b5

i386/debug/gaim-debuginfo-1.3.1-0.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: 1.3.1
Release: 0.fc3
Summary: A Gtk+ based multiprotocol instant messaging client

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