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Gaim URL Processing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability Advisory Available in Danish 

Secunia Advisory: SA15328  
Release Date: 2005-05-11

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

Software:Gaim 1.x

CVE reference:CVE-2005-1261 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2005-1262 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
A vulnerability and a weakness have been reported in Gaim, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or compromise a user's system.

1) A boundary error within the processing of messages containing URLs can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a message containing an overly long URL (more than 8192 bytes).

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.

2) A NULL pointer dereference error within the handling of MSN messages can be exploited to crash the application via a SLP message with an empty body.

Solution:
Update to version 1.3.0.
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/downloads.php

Provided and/or discovered by:
1) Stu Tomlinson
2) Siebe Tolsma

Original Advisory:
Gaim:
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/index.php?id=16
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/index.php?id=17

Red Hat:
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-429.html



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4. Gaim Multiple Denial of Service Weaknesses
5. Gaim Filename Paranthesis Handling Denial of Service Weakness
6. Gaim HTML Processing Denial of Service Weakness
7. Gaim Two Denial of Service Weaknesses
8. Gaim MSN SLP Message Handling Buffer Overflow Vulnerability


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