Fedora: gaim Buffer overflow vulnerability
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-debuginfo-0.75-1.3.0.i386.rpm
This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.
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References
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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