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Gentoo FoundationGLSA-200408-27

HistoryAug 27, 2004 - 12:00 a.m.

Gaim: New vulnerabilities

2004-08-2700:00:00

Gentoo Foundation

security.gentoo.org

7.5 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.078 Low

EPSS

Percentile

94.2%

JSON

Background

Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for Linux which supports many instant messaging protocols.

Description

Gaim fails to do proper bounds checking when:

Handling MSN messages (partially fixed with GLSA 200408-12).
Handling rich text format messages.
Resolving local hostname.
Receiving long URLs.
Handling groupware messages.
Allocating memory for webpages with fake content-length header.

Furthermore Gaim fails to escape filenames when using drag and drop installation of smiley themes.

Impact

These vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to crash Gaim or execute arbitrary code or commands with the permissions of the user running Gaim.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time. All users are encouraged to upgrade to the latest available version of Gaim.

Resolution

All gaim users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge sync
 
 # emerge -pv "&gt;=net-im/gaim-0.81-r5"
 # emerge "&gt;=net-im/gaim-0.81-r5"

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Gentooanyallnet-im/gaim< 0.81-r5UNKNOWN

OS	Version	Architecture	Package	Version	Filename
Gentoo	any	all	net-im/gaim	< 0.81-r5	UNKNOWN

7.5 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.078 Low

EPSS

Percentile

94.2%

JSON

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