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Slackware 9.1, 10.0: 2004-239-01 Moderate: Gaim Buffer Overflow Fix

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Calendar Grey August 27, 2004
Scroller Slackware Esm H88
Enhance your Slackware environment by updating gaim packages to resolve various security vulnerabilities. Crucial for maintaining overall system stability.
New gaim packages are available for Slackware 9.1, 10.0 and -current to fix several security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 10.0 ChangeLog: Thu Aug 26 17:14:09 PDT 2004 patches/packages/gaim-0.82-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to gaim-0.82 and gaim-encryption-2.29. Fixes several security issues: Content-length DOS (malloc error) (no CAN ID on this one) MSN strncpy buffer overflow (CAN-2004-0500) Groupware message receive integer overflow (CAN-2004-0754) Smiley theme installation lack of escaping (CAN-2004-0784) RTF message buffer overflow, Local hostname resolution buffer overflow, URL decode buffer overflow (these 3 are CAN-2004-0785) For more details, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CAN-2004-0500 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CAN-2004-0754 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CAN-2004-0784 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CAN-2004-0785 (* Security fix *)

Where Find New Packages

Updated package for Slackware 9.1:
Updated package for Slackware 10.0:
Updated package for Slackware -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 9.1 package: 2034d5d16ab7ea82d03f52df7b1e31c5 gaim-0.82-i486-1.tgz
Slackware 10.0 package: 1b779612c3a82f173a297e5c13dbd239 gaim-0.82-i486-1.tgz
Slackware -current package: 196d30002d2175e6eb0f90f2a9fc62d8 gaim-0.82-i486-1.tgz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg gaim-0.82-i486-1.tgz