Gaim: Denial of Service vulnerabilities

Gaim: Denial of Service vulnerabilities Gaim contains two remote Denial of Service vulnerabilities. gaim 2005-06-12 2005-06-12 95347 remote 1.3.1 1.3.1

Gaim is a full featured instant messaging client which handles a variety of instant messaging protocols.

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).

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

There are no known workarounds at this time.

All Gaim users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-im/gaim-1.3.1"

Gaim Vulnerability: Remote Yahoo! crash Gaim Vulnerability: MSN Remote DoS CAN-2005-1269 CAN-2005-1934 koon r2d2 koon