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                                  CERT-Renater

                       Note d'Information No. 2005/VULN141
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DATE                      : 02/03/2005

HARDWARE PLATFORM(S)      : /

OPERATING SYSTEM(S)       : Systems running Gaim versions prior to 1.1.4.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200503-03
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   Severity: Normal
      Title: Gaim: Multiple Denial of Service issues
       Date: March 01, 2005
       Bugs: #83253
         ID: 200503-03

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Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Gaim which could allow a
remote attacker to crash the application.

Background
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Gaim is a full featured instant messaging client which handles a
variety of instant messaging protocols.

Affected packages
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      Package      /  Vulnerable  /                          Unaffected
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   1  net-im/gaim       < 1.1.4                                >= 1.1.4

Description
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Specially crafted SNAC packets sent by other instant-messaging users
can cause Gaim to loop endlessly (CAN-2005-0472). Malformed HTML code
could lead to invalid memory accesses (CAN-2005-0208 and
CAN-2005-0473).

Impact
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Remote attackers could exploit these issues, resulting in a Denial of
Service.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All Gaim users should upgrade to the latest version:

     # emerge --sync
     # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-im/gaim-1.1.4"

References
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   [ 1 ] CAN-2005-0208
         http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0208
   [ 2 ] CAN-2005-0472
         http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0472
   [ 3 ] CAN-2005-0473
         http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0473

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

   http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200503-03.xml

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2005 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0


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