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<glsa id="200503-03">
  <title>Gaim: Multiple Denial of Service issues</title>
  <synopsis>
    Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Gaim which could allow a remote
    attacker to crash the application.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">gaim</product>
  <announced>March 01, 2005</announced>
  <revised>March 01, 2005: 01</revised>
  <bug>83253</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-im/gaim" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.1.4</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.1.4</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Gaim is a full featured instant messaging client which handles a
    variety of instant messaging protocols.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    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).
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    Remote attackers could exploit these issues, resulting in a Denial
    of Service.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Gaim users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=net-im/gaim-1.1.4&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0208">CAN-2005-0208</uri>
    <uri link="http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0472">CAN-2005-0472</uri>
    <uri link="http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0473">CAN-2005-0473</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:54:05 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Fri, 25 Feb 2005 10:52:36 +0000">
    DerCorny
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Tue,  1 Mar 2005 08:51:34 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
</glsa>