It was discovered that Gaim did not properly handle certain malformed messages when sending a file using the XMPP protocol handler. If a user were tricked into sending a file, a remote attacker could send a specially crafted response and cause Gaim to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges. (CVE-2009-1373) [More...]

==========================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-781-2              June 03, 2009
gaim vulnerabilities
CVE-2009-1373, CVE-2009-1376
==========================================================
A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS

This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of
Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.

The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the
following package versions:

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS:
  gaim                            1:1.5.0+1.5.1cvs20051015-1ubuntu10.2

After a standard system upgrade you need to restart Gaim to effect
the necessary changes.

Details follow:

It was discovered that Gaim did not properly handle certain malformed
messages when sending a file using the XMPP protocol handler. If a user
were tricked into sending a file, a remote attacker could send a specially
crafted response and cause Gaim to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary
code with user privileges. (CVE-2009-1373)

It was discovered that Gaim did not properly handle certain malformed
messages in the MSN protocol handler. A remote attacker could send a
specially crafted message and possibly execute arbitrary code with user
privileges. (CVE-2009-1376)


Updated packages for Ubuntu 6.06 LTS:

  Source archives:

          Size/MD5:    35032 018074e6f3fe79b0334b616c41db8f16
          Size/MD5:     1061 fedec169b55ed59a1d258f4261d3342e
          Size/MD5:  4299145 949ae755e9be1af68eef6c09c36a7530

  Architecture independent packages:

          Size/MD5:   613400 851c17117f60a8bdd7a1a7945295bb95

  amd64 architecture (Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon):

          Size/MD5:   103268 3e801c048c16f37927274e223006cf12
          Size/MD5:   954312 b221c7923480c8f561b19f25602fb42d

  i386 architecture (x86 compatible Intel/AMD):

          Size/MD5:   103268 7c5d619c893be0613fc3e9e520180ac3
          Size/MD5:   836516 36ab380abace72300ba4aa0da8af0423

  powerpc architecture (Apple Macintosh G3/G4/G5):

          Size/MD5:   103266 f8d87f5da7ae492b3e5564c132afb4de
          Size/MD5:   924684 227c223828b0edcc564397b37281636a

  sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC):

          Size/MD5:   103252 4e6a313eced48612d2f35ab69ebd85b1
          Size/MD5:   856864 9b00254efd713d0001bb7e11817e6bc3