Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 : gaim vulnerability (USN-139-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 20531

Synopsis

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

Description

A remote Denial of Service vulnerability was discovered in Gaim. By initiating a file transfer with a file name containing certain international characters (like an accented 'a'), a remote attacker could crash the Gaim client of an arbitrary Yahoo IM member.

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Solution

Update the affected gaim, gaim-data and / or gaim-dev packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 20531

File Name: ubuntu_USN-139-1.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks

Published: 1/15/2006

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

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: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gaim-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gaim-data, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gaim, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 6/10/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-1269

USN: 139-1

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