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Gaim MSN SLP Message Handling Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA12887
Release Date: 2004-10-20
Popularity: 13,350 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Gaim 0.x
Gaim 1.x

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Gaim, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the handling of MSN SLP messages. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow by supplying a specially crafted sequence of MSN SLP messages.

Successful exploitation may potentially allow execution of arbitrary code.

Two other bugs have also been reported, which can be exploited to crash the application when accepting file transfers and processing a malformed MSN SLP message.

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