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Gaim Two Denial of Service Weaknesses
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA14322
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Release Date:
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2005-02-18
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Last Update:
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2005-02-22
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Popularity:
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10,466 views
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Critical:
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Not critical
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Impact:
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DoS
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Gaim 1.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2005-0472
CVE-2005-0473
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Description:
Two weaknesses have been reported in Gaim, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
1) An error within the parsing of received SNAC packets can be exploited to cause a user's Gaim application to become unresponsive when receiving specially crafted packets.
2) An error within the processing of HTML can be exploited to crash the application when receiving specially crafted HTML.
Solution:
Update to version 1.1.3.
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/downloads.php
Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by vendor.
Changelog:
2005-02-21: Added CVE references.
2005-02-22: Added links to US-CERT vulnerability notes.
Original Advisory:
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/index.php?id=10
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/index.php?id=11
Other References:
US-CERT VU#523888:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/523888
US-CERT VU#839280:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/839280
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