Title: Sandino Flores Moreno Gaim Festival Plug-in Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
Gaim is an instant messaging client that supports numerous protocols. It is available for the Unix and Linux platforms. Gaim Festival Plug-in is software that transfers incoming GAIM messages to Festival where the text is voice synthesized and output to the sound card.
The Gaim Festival Plug-in is reported prone to a remote denial of service vulnerability. Reports indicate that the plug-in does not handle certain characters correctly and will crash if these characters are parsed from an incoming message. It is reported that when the following C code is sent to a remote user, their Festival Plug-in will crash and their current Gaim session terminated:
##printf("%s", "%s", "hello world");
##printf("%s", "hello world");
A remote attacker may exploit this condition to deny service to legitimate users. Further attacks may also be possible.
Affected Products:
- Sandino Flores Moreno Gaim Festival Plug-in 0.68.0
- Sandino Flores Moreno Gaim Festival Plug-in 0.68.2
- Sandino Flores Moreno Gaim Festival Plug-in 0.70.0
- Sandino Flores Moreno Gaim Festival Plug-in 0.71.0
- Sandino Flores Moreno Gaim Festival Plug-in 0.76.0
- Sandino Flores Moreno Gaim Festival Plug-in 0.77.0
- Sandino Flores Moreno Gaim Festival Plug-in 0.78.0
- Sandino Flores Moreno Gaim Festival Plug-in 0.81.0
- Sandino Flores Moreno Gaim Festival Plug-in 1.0.0
References:
- Sandino Flores Moreno: Festival-Gaim Homepage
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