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Gentoo: GLSA-200512-07 Critical: Pidgin Security Flaw Leading to Exploits

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Calendar Grey August 20, 2005
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Gaim on Gentoo has been found to have a critical buffer overflow vulnerability that enables attackers to execute arbitrary code remotely and launch denial-of-service (DoS) assaults.
Gaim is vulnerable to a buffer overflow which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code or to a Denial of Service.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200508-06 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Gaim: Remote execution of arbitrary code Date: August 15, 2005 Bugs: #102000 ID: 200508-06

Synopsis ======= Gaim is vulnerable to a buffer overflow which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code or to a 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 < 1.5.0 >= 1.5.0
========== Brandon Perry discovered that Gaim is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow when handling away messages (CAN-2005...

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