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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.55061
Category:Mandrake Local Security Checks
Title:Mandrake Security Advisory MDKSA-2005:139 (gaim)
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing an update to gaim
announced via advisory MDKSA-2005:139.

Yet more vulnerabilities have been discovered in the gaim IM client.
Invalid characters in a sent file can cause Gaim to crash on some
systems (CVE-2005-2102)
a remote AIM or ICQ user can cause a buffer
overflow in Gaim by setting an away message containing many AIM
substitution strings (CVE-2005-2103)
a memory alignment bug in the
library used by Gaim to access the Gadu-Gadu network can result in
a buffer overflow on non-x86 architecture systems (CVE-2005-2370).

These problems have been corrected in gaim 1.5.0 which is provided with
this update.

Affected versions: 10.1, 10.2, Corporate 3.0

Solution:
To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=MDKSA-2005:139

Risk factor : High

CVSS Score:
7.5

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-2102
14531
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14531
FLSA:158543
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/426078/100/0/threaded
RHSA-2005:627
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-627.html
SUSE-SR:2005:019
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_19_sr.html
USN-168-1
https://usn.ubuntu.com/168-1/
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/?id=21
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9283
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9283
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-2103
RHSA-2005:589
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-589.html
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/?id=22
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11477
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11477
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-2370
BugTraq ID: 24600
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24600
Bugtraq: 20050721 Multiple vulnerabilities in libgadu and ekg package (Google Search)
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112198499417250&w=2
Debian Security Information: DSA-1318 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1318
Debian Security Information: DSA-813 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-813
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10456
http://secunia.com/advisories/16265
CopyrightCopyright (c) 2005 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com

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