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Secunia Advisory SA16379

Gaim Away Message Buffer Overflow and Denial of Service
Secunia Advisory SA16379
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Release Date 2005-08-10
Last Update 2005-08-12
   
Popularity 16,616 views
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Criticality level Highly criticalHighly critical
Impact DoS
System access
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
Remediation status Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
Automated scanning Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
   
Software:
Gaim 1.x

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2005-2102 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2005-2103 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

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) An error in the handling of away messages can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow by sending a specially crafted away message to a user logged into AIM or ICQ.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.

2) An error in the handling of file transfers can be exploited to crash the application by attempting to upload a file with a non-UTF8 filename to a user logged into AIM or ICQ.


Solution
Update to version 1.5.0.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
1) Brandon Perry
2) Daniel Atallah

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
Gaim:
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/index.php?id=21
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/index.php?id=22

Deep Links
Links available in Customer Area


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