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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.53051
Category:Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Title:Ubuntu USN-140-1 (gaim)
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing an update to gaim
announced via advisory USN-140-1.

A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog)
Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog)

The following packages are affected: gaim

A remote Denial of Service vulnerability was discovered in Gaim. A
remote attacker could crash the Gaim client of an MSN user by sending
a specially crafted MSN package which states an invalid body length in
the header.

Solution:
The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to
version 1:1.0.0-1ubuntu1.6 (for Ubuntu 4.10), or 1:1.1.4-1ubuntu4.3
(for Ubuntu 5.04). After doing a standard system upgrade you need to
restart Gaim to effect the necessary changes.

http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=USN-140-1

Risk factor : Medium

CVSS Score:
5.0

Cross-Ref: BugTraq ID: 13932
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-1934
13932
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13932
DSA-734
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-734
FLSA:158543
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/426078/100/0/threaded
GLSA-200506-11
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200506-11.xml
MDKSA-2005:099
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:099
RHSA-2005:518
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-518.html
SUSE-SA:2005:036
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_36_sudo.html
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1205290&group_id=235&atid=100235
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10368
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10368
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:263
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A263
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