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Gentoo: GLSA-200408-12 Normal: Gaim MSN Protocol Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey August 12, 2004
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Gaim experiences a moderate severity buffer overflow vulnerability within the MSN protocol, enabling remote code execution. It is advised to implement updates promptly.
Gaim contains a remotely exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability in the MSN-protocol parsing code that may allow remote execution of arbitrary code

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200408-12
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: Normal
     Title: Gaim: MSN protocol parsing function buffer overflow
      Date: August 12, 2004
      Bugs: #60034
        ID: 200408-12


Synopsis
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Gaim contains a remotely exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability in
the MSN-protocol parsing code that may allow remote execution of
arbitrary code.

Background
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Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for Linux which
supports many instant messaging protocols.

Affected packages
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     Package      /  Vulnerable  /                          Unaffected
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  1  net-im/gaim       <= 0.81                              >= 0.81-r1

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Sebastian Krahmer ...
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