Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : gaim (MDKSA-2005:049)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 17278

Synopsis

The remote Mandrake Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Gaim versions prior to version 1.1.4 suffer from a few security issues such as the HTML parses not sufficiently validating its input. This allowed a remote attacker to crash the Gaim client be sending certain malformed HTML messages (CVE-2005-0208 and CVE-2005-0473).

As well, insufficient input validation was also discovered in the 'Oscar' protocol handler, used for ICQ and AIM. By sending specially crafted packets, remote users could trigger an inifinite loop in Gaim causing it to become unresponsive and hang (CVE-2005-0472).

Gaim 1.1.4 is provided and fixes these issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 17278

File Name: mandrake_MDKSA-2005-049.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Family: Mandriva Local Security Checks

Published: 3/6/2005

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:gaim-perl, cpe:/o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:10.1, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:gaim-devel, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64gaim-remote0, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libgaim-remote0-devel, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64gaim-remote0-devel, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:gaim-tcl, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:gaim-gevolution, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libgaim-remote0, cpe:/o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:10.0, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:gaim

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/Mandrake/release, Host/Mandrake/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 3/4/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0208, CVE-2005-0472, CVE-2005-0473

MDKSA: 2005:049

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