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Gaim-Encryption Malformed Encrypted Message Denial of Service
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA17739
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Release Date:
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2005-11-25
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Last Update:
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2006-02-03
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Popularity:
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6,878 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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Unpatched
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| Software: | Gaim-Encryption 2.x
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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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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.
Change Page:
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