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