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

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Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Gaim which could allow a
remote attacker to crash the application.

Background
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Gaim is a full featured instant messaging client which handles a
variety of instant messaging protocols.

Affected packages
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     Package      /  Vulnerable  /                          Unaffected
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  1  net-im/gaim       < 1.1.4                                >= 1.1.4

Description
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Specially crafted SNAC packets sent by other instant-messaging userscan cause Gaim to loop endlessly (CAN-2005-0472). Malformed HTML code
could lead to invalid memory accesses (CAN-2005-0208 and
CAN-2005-0473).

Impact
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Remote attackers could exploit these issues, resulting in a Denial of
Service.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All Gaim users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-im/gaim-1.1.4"

References
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  [ 1 ] CAN-2005-0208
          [ 2 ] CAN-2005-0472
          [ 3 ] CAN-2005-0473
        
Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

  https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200503-03

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
https://bugs.gentoo.org/.

License
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Copyright 2005 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/