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Gentoo: GLSA-200410-23 High: Gaim Remote Execution Threat

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Calendar Grey October 24, 2004
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Gaim presents several vulnerabilities that may lead to unexpected execution of code remotely or service interruptions. Immediate patching recommended.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Gaim which could allow a remote attacker to crash the application, or possibly execute arbitrary code

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200410-23 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Gaim: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: October 24, 2004 Bugs: #68271 ID: 200410-23

Synopsis ======= Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Gaim which could allow a remote attacker to crash the application, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
Background ========= Gaim is a full featured instant messaging client which handls a variety of instant messaging protocols.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-im/gaim < 1.0.2 >= 1.0.2
========== A possible buffer overflow exists in the code processing MSN SLP messages (CAN-2004-0891). memcpy() w...

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