Title: Gaim Multiple Remote Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
Gaim is an instant-messaging client that supports numerous protocols. It is available for UNIX and Linux platforms.
Gaim is prone to multiple remote denial-of-service vulnerabilities. These issues can allow remote attackers to crash an affected client.
The following specific issues were identified:
- Remote AIM or ICQ users may trigger a crash in a client by sending malformed SNAC packets. This issue results in causing the application to start an infinite loop that eventually leads to a crash.
- Another vulnerability in the client arises during the parsing of malformed HTML data. This issue results in an invalid memory access that eventually leads to a crash.
Gaim versions prior to 1.1.3 are affected by these issues.
Affected Products:
- Conectiva Linux 10.0.0
- Conectiva Linux 9.0.0
- Debian Linux 3.0.0
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 alpha
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 arm
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 hppa
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 ia-32
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 ia-64
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 m68k
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 mips
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 mipsel
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 ppc
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 s/390
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 sparc
- Gentoo Linux
- MandrakeSoft Corporate Server 3.0.0
- MandrakeSoft Corporate Server 3.0.0 x86_64
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 10.0.0
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 10.0.0 amd64
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 10.1.0
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 10.1.0 x86_64
- Peachtree Linux Release 1
- RedHat Desktop 3.0.0
- RedHat Desktop 4.0.0
- RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 3
- RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 4
- RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 3
- RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 4
- RedHat Enterprise Linux WS 3
- RedHat Enterprise Linux WS 4
- RedHat Fedora Core1
- RedHat Fedora Core2
- RedHat Fedora Core3
- RedHat Linux 7.3.0
- RedHat Linux 7.3.0 i386
- RedHat Linux 7.3.0 i686
- RedHat Linux 9.0.0 i386
- Rob Flynn Gaim 1.0.0
- Rob Flynn Gaim 1.0.1
- Rob Flynn Gaim 1.0.2
- Rob Flynn Gaim 1.1.1
- Rob Flynn Gaim 1.1.2
- S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.0.0
- S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.0.0 x86_64
- S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.1.0
- S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.1.0 x86_64
- S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.2.0
- S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.2.0 x86_64
- S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.3.0
- S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 9.3.0 x86_64
- S.u.S.E. Linux Professional 9.0.0
- S.u.S.E. Linux Professional 9.0.0 x86_64
- S.u.S.E. Linux Professional 9.1.0
- S.u.S.E. Linux Professional 9.1.0 x86_64
- S.u.S.E. Linux Professional 9.2.0
- S.u.S.E. Linux Professional 9.2.0 x86_64
- S.u.S.E. Linux Professional 9.3.0
- S.u.S.E. Linux Professional 9.3.0 x86_64
- Slackware Linux -current
- Slackware Linux 10.0.0
- Slackware Linux 9.0.0
- Slackware Linux 9.1.0
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 4.1.0 ia32
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 4.1.0 ia64
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 4.1.0 ppc
References:
- Gaim: AIM/ICQ remote denial of service
- Gaim: Project Homepage
- Gaim: Remote DoS on receiving malformed HTML
- RedHat: RHSA-2005:215-11 - gaim security update
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