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Fedora: 2004-070 Important: gaim Buffer Overflow Vulnerability Risk

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Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2004-070 2004-02-16 ----------------------------------------------
This update fixes recent gaim security problems as discussed on both the gaim web site and was addressed by a recent Red Hat errata.

Summary

Gaim is a clone of America Online's Instant Messenger client. It

features nearly all of the functionality of the official AIM client

while also being smaller, faster, and commercial-free.

Update Information:


This update fixes recent gaim security problems as discussed on both the gaim web site and was addressed by a recent Red Hat errata. * Fri Jan 23 2004 Christopher Blizzard <blizzard@redhat.com> 1:0.75-1.1.0

- Include patch that fixes a bunch of buffer-related problems, mostly from nectar@freebsd.org and some of my own changes.

* Wed Jan 14 2004 Christopher Blizzard <blizzard@redhat.com> 1:0.75-0

- Update to 0.75. - Remove mem leak patch that is already included in 0.75. - Clean up a lot of old unused patches and old source tarballs.

* Fri Dec 12 2003 Christopher Blizzard <blizzard@redhat.com> 1:0.74-10

- Add patch that fixes a large memory leak.

* Thu Dec 04 2003 Christopher Blizzard <blizzard@redhat.com> 1:0.74-9

- Bump release to rebuild for fc2.


This update can be downloaded from:


5b0ea8a1d87b610b3027a9f1790fad10 SRPMS/gaim-0.75-1.3.0.src.rpm 4482f5d9a40c2bc6f8ea2c273a6d6d06 i386/gaim-0.75-1.3.0.i386.rpm d95a2f84907b1d1ecdd1180b0a30d17c i386/debug/gaim...

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Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2004-070 2004-02-16
Name : gaim Version : 0.75 Release : 1.3.0 Summary : A GTK+ clone of the AOL Instant Messenger client. Description : Gaim is a clone of America Online's Instant Messenger client. It features nearly all of the functionality of the official AIM client while also being smaller, faster, and commercial-free.

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Name: gaim
Version: 0.75
Release: 1.3.0
Summary: A GTK+ clone of the AOL Instant Messenger client.

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