Gentoo: GLSA-200505-10 Critical: Pidgin Security Vulnerability Exploits

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200505-09 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Gaim: Denial of Service and buffer overflow vulnerabilties Date: May 12, 2005 Bugs: #91862 ID: 200505-09

Synopsis ======= Gaim contains two vulnerabilities, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code or Denial of Service.
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 < 1.3.0 >= 1.3.0
========== Stu Tomlinson discovered that Gaim is vulnerable to a remote stack based buffer overflow when receiving messa...