Gentoo: GLSA-200408-12 Normal: Gaim MSN Protocol Buffer Overflow
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August 12, 2004
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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