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GLSA-200506-11 : Gaim: Denial of Service vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 18468

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200506-11 (Gaim: Denial of Service vulnerabilities)

 Jacopo Ottaviani discovered a vulnerability in the Yahoo! file transfer code when being offered files with names containing non-ASCII characters (CAN-2005-1269).
 Hugo de Bokkenrijder discovered a vulnerability when receiving malformed MSN messages (CAN-2005-1934).
 Impact :

 Both vulnerabilities cause Gaim to crash, resulting in a Denial of Service.
 Workaround :

 There are no known workarounds at this time.

Solution

All Gaim users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=net-im/gaim-1.3.1'

See Also

http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=18

http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=19

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200506-11

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 18468

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200506-11.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Published: 6/13/2005

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

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:gentoo:linux:gaim, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Patch Publication Date: 6/12/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-1269, CVE-2005-1934

GLSA: 200506-11