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security advisorybuffer overflowsoftware updateFedora Core 3: FEDORA-2005-750 Moderate: Gaim Buffer Overflow
Updated package.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2005-750 2005-08-17 ---------------------------------------------------------------------Product : Fedora Core 3 Name : gaim Version : 1.5.0 Release : 1.fc3 Summary : A GTK+ clone of the AOL Instant Messenger client. Description : Gaim is a clone of America Online's Instant Messenger client. It features nearly all of the functionality of the official AIM client while also being smaller, faster, and commercial-free. ---------------------------------------------------------------------Update Information: Please see the Changelog details and security information at the upstream Gaim Project site. ---------------------------------------------------------------------* Thu Aug 11 2005 Warren Togami - 1:1.5.0-1 - 1.5.0 security and bug fixes CAN-2005-2370 Gadu-Gadu memory alignment bug CAN-2005-2102 AIM/ICQ non-UTF-8 Filename Crash CAN-2005-2103 AIM/ICQ away message buffer overflow * Tue Aug 9 2005 Jeremy Katz - 1:1.4.0-7 - rebuild for new evolution-data-server * Mon Aug 1 2005 Warren Togami 1:1.4.0-6 - FC5+ bash regex replace for -fstack-protector-all (mharris) * Sun Jul 31 2005 Warren Togami 1:1.4.0-5 - FC5+ automatic -fstack-protector-all switch - 150: MSN buddy names with space disconnect and profile corruption (supercedes patch 149) - 151: Gadu Gadu memory alignment crash - 152: Rename Group Merge crash - 153: mailto: parse crash (util.c) - 154: mailto: parse crash (MSN) - 155: mailto: parse crash (Zephyr) ---------------------------------------------------------------------This update can be downloaded from: 709dfeddc2b8ae02448478518ad6579c SRPMS/gaim-1.5.0-1.fc3.src.rpm 788f4fe7561131aaf406c8bb7a473e50 x86_64/gaim-1.5.0-1.fc3.x86_64.rpm 17ac20c2e95577cbe268bff717d08bcc x86_64/debug/gaim-debuginfo-1.5.0-1.fc3.x86_64.rpm d22007b8bf36278a4511ccb164f91de1 i386/gaim-1.5.0-1.fc3.i386.rpm 7ae413d0f5b18409f64f63887574f748 i386/debug/gaim-debuginfo-1.5.0-1.fc3.i386.rpm This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command. -----------------------------------------------------------------------fedora-announce-list mailing list
Aug 18, 2005
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security advisorybuffer overflowred hat linuxRed Hat Linux RHSA-2004:032-02 Urgent: Gaim Memory Leak Vulnerability
Multiple buffer overflows that affect versions of Gaim 0.75 and earlier.. - --------------------------------------------------------------------- Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Updated Gaim packages fix various vulnerabiliies Advisory ID: RHSA-2004:032-01 Issue date: 2004-01-19 Updated on: 2004-01-23 Product: Red Hat Linux Keywords: gaim im Cross references: Obsoletes: CVE Names: CAN-2004-0006 CAN-2004-0007 CAN-2004-0008 - --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Topic: Updated Gaim packages that fix a number of serious vulnerabilities are now available. 2. Relevant releases/architectures: Red Hat Linux 9 - i386 3. Problem description: Gaim is an instant messenger client that can handle multiple protocols. Stefan Esser audited the Gaim source code and found a number of bugs that have security implications. Due to the nature of instant messaging many of these bugs require man-in-the-middle attacks between client and server. However at least one of the buffer overflows could be exploited by an attacker sending a carefully-constructed malicious message through a server. The issues include: Multiple buffer overflows that affect versions of Gaim 0.75 and earlier. 1) When parsing cookies in a Yahoo web connection, 2) YMSG protocol overflows parsing the Yahoo login webpage, 3) a YMSG packet overflow, 4) flaws in the URL parser, and 5) flaws in HTTP Proxy connect. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2004-0006 to these issues. A buffer overflow in Gaim 0.74 and earlier in the Extract Info Field Function used for MSN and YMSG protocol handlers. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2004-0007 to this issue. An integer overflow in Gaim 0.74 and earlier, when allocating memory for a directIM packet results in heap overflow. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project(cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2004-0008 to this issue. All users of Gaim should upgrade to these erratum packages, which contain backported security patches correcting these issues. Red Hat would like to thank Steffan Esser for finding and reporting these issues and Jacques A. Vidrine for providing initial patches. 4. Solution: Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. To update all RPMs for your particular architecture, run: rpm -Fvh [filenames] where [filenames] is a list of the RPMs you wish to upgrade. Only those RPMs which are currently installed will be updated. Those RPMs which are not installed but included in the list will not be updated. Note that you can also use wildcards (*.rpm) if your current directory *only* contains the desired RPMs. Please note that this update is also available via Red Hat Network. Many people find this an easier way to apply updates. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate RPMs being upgraded on your system. If up2date fails to connect to Red Hat Network due to SSL Certificate Errors, you need to install a version of the up2date client with an updated certificate. The latest version of up2date is available from the Red Hat FTP site and may also be downloaded directly from the RHN website: https://access.redhat.com 5. Bug IDs fixed ( for more info): 113845 - CAN-2004-0006/7/8 Multiple vulnerabilities in Gaim 6. RPMs required: Red Hat Linux 9: SRPMS: i386: 7. Verification: MD5 sum Package Name - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- eaf62f33af192f2cb049cc8593f35aae 9/en/os/SRPMS/gaim-0.75-0.9.0.src.rpm 27835ea8b63b3e876ab18c73e8e7fbd6 9/en/os/i386/gaim-0.75-0.9.0.i386.rpm These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key is available fromhttps://access.redhat.com/security/team/key You can verify each package with the following command: rpm --checksig -v If you only wish to verify that each package has not been corrupted or tampered with, examine only the md5sum with the following command: md5sum 8. References: CVE -CVE-2004-0006 CVE -CVE-2004-0007 CVE -CVE-2004-0008 9. Contact: The Red Hat security contact is . More contact details at https://www.redhat.com/en/products Copyright 2003 Red Hat, Inc. . Recent enhancements to Gaim by Red Hat tackle significant buffer overflow issues, bolstering the security framework for messaging software.. Gaim Security Update, Red Hat Linux, Buffer Overflow Risks, IM Client Security. . Severity: Important. LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 26, 2004
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