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Gentoo: GLSA-200506-11 Normal: Gaim DoS Threats Detected

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Calendar Grey June 12, 2005
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Gaim network service vulnerabilities outlined in Gentoo announcement GLSA 200506-15; users advised to update software.
Gaim contains two remote Denial of Service vulnerabilities.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200506-11 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Gaim: Denial of Service vulnerabilities Date: June 12, 2005 Bugs: #95347 ID: 200506-11

Synopsis ======= Gaim contains two remote Denial of Service vulnerabilities.
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 < 1.3.1 >= 1.3.1
========== Jacopo Ottaviani discovered a vulnerability in the Yahoo! file transfer code when being offered files with names containing non-ASCII characters (CAN-2005-1269).
Hugo de Bokkenrij...

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