Descripción: | Description:
The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory CLA-2005:949.
Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client.
This announcement fixes three denial of service vulnerabilities that were encountered in Gaim.
The fixed vulnerabilities are:
CVE-2005-0965: The gaim_markup_strip_html function 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.
CVE-2005-0966: The IRC protocol plugin allowed (1) remote attackers to inject arbitrary Gaim markup via irc_msg_kick, irc_msg_mode, irc_msg_part, irc_msg_quit, (2) remote attackers to inject arbitrary Pango markup and pop up empty dialog boxes via irc_msg_invite, or (3) malicious IRC servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by injecting certain Pango markup into irc_msg_badmode, irc_msg_banned, irc_msg_unknown, irc_msg_nochan functions.
CVE-2005-0967: Sending a Gaim Jabber user a certain invalid file transfer request triggered an out-of-bounds read which caused Gaim to crash.
For further informations on Gaim's vulnerabilities, please refer to the project's security page.
Solution: The apt tool can be used to perform RPM package upgrades by running 'apt-get update' followed by 'apt-get upgrade'
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/ http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=CLA-2005:949 http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/index.php?id=a&anuncio=000949
Risk factor : High
CVSS Score: 6.4
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