metadata/glsa/glsa-200506-11.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200506-11">
  <title>Gaim: Denial of Service vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>
    Gaim contains two remote Denial of Service vulnerabilities.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">gaim</product>
  <announced>2005-06-12</announced>
  <revised>2005-06-12: 01</revised>
  <bug>95347</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-im/gaim" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.3.1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.3.1</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>
    Jacopo Ottaviani discovered a vulnerability in the Yahoo! file
    transfer code when being offered files with names containing non-ASCII
    characters (CAN-2005-1269).
    </p>
    <p>
    Hugo de Bokkenrijder discovered a
    vulnerability when receiving malformed MSN messages (CAN-2005-1934).
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    Both vulnerabilities cause Gaim to crash, resulting in a Denial of
    Service.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There are no known workarounds at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Gaim users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-im/gaim-1.3.1"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/?id=18">Gaim Vulnerability: Remote Yahoo! crash</uri>
    <uri link="https://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/?id=19">Gaim Vulnerability: MSN Remote DoS</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1269">CAN-2005-1269</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1934">CAN-2005-1934</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2005-06-10T08:03:05Z">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2005-06-10T08:44:05Z">
    r2d2
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2005-06-12T13:55:53Z">
    koon
  </metadata>
</glsa>