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Gaim-Encryption Malformed Encrypted Message Denial of Service
Secunia Advisory: SA17739
Release Date: 2005-11-25
Last Update: 2006-02-03
Popularity: 7,243 views

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:Gaim-Encryption 2.x

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Description:
Joerg Kurlbaum has discovered a weakness in Gaim-Encryption, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The weakness is caused due to an error in the "GE_received_key()" function of "keys.c" when using the "sscanf()" function to determine the start position of the key in an encrypted message. This can be exploited to crash Gaim via a malformed encrypted message if the Gaim-Encryption plugin is enabled.

The weakness has been confirmed in version 2.38 on Gaim v1.3.1-0.fc4. Other versions may also be affected.

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