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FreeBSD : gaim -- remote DoS on receiving malformed HTML (3fa2b372-a9f5-11d9-a788-0001020eed82)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 18911

Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

The GAIM team reports :

The gaim_markup_strip_html function in Gaim 1.2.0, and possibly earlier versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a string that contains malformed HTML, which causes an out-of-bounds read.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=13

http://www.nessus.org/u?4e6d0397

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 18911

File Name: freebsd_pkg_3fa2b372a9f511d9a7880001020eed82.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Published: 7/13/2005

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:gaim, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:ja-gaim, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:ko-gaim, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:ru-gaim, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/10/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/2/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0965

BID: 12999