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Gentoo: GLSA-200503-03 Critical: Gaim Denial of Service Issues

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Calendar Grey March 1, 2005
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Alert: Gaim is affected by several Denial of Service vulnerabilities. It's crucial to update immediately to protect your Gentoo system from external threats.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Gaim which could allow a remote attacker to crash the application.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200503-03 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Gaim: Multiple Denial of Service issues Date: March 01, 2005 Bugs: #83253 ID: 200503-03

Synopsis ======= Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Gaim which could allow a remote attacker to crash the application.
Background ========= Gaim is a full featured instant messaging client which handles a variety of instant messaging protocols.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-im/gaim < 1.1.4 >= 1.1.4
========== Specially crafted SNAC packets sent by other instant-messaging userscan cause Gaim to loop endlessly (CAN-2005-0472). Mal...

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