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Gaim Exposure of Local User Name Security Issue
Secunia Advisory: SA10191
Release Date: 2003-11-12
Popularity: 6,444 views

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: Exposure of sensitive information
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:Gaim 0.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
A security issue has been reported in Gaim, which allows malicious people to see a user's local user name on a system.

Users are registered with both their nick name and the current user name on the local system when Gaim connects to an IRC server. Other IRC users can view this information by requesting information on a user.

The security issue has been reported in version 0.72.

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