Gaim has several vulnerabilities affecting instant messaging; primarily in unstable distribution.
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 44 |
---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-434) | 17 Jan 200800:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200401-04 (GAIM) | 24 Sep 200800:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | Debian Security Advisory DSA 434-1 (gaim) | 17 Jan 200800:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200401-04 (GAIM) | 24 Sep 200800:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | FreeBSD Ports: gaim, ja-gaim, ko-gaim, ru-gaim | 4 Sep 200800:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | FreeBSD Ports: gaim, ja-gaim, ko-gaim, ru-gaim | 4 Sep 200800:00 | – | openvas |
![]() | FreeBSD : Several remotely exploitable buffer overflows in gaim (52) | 6 Jul 200400:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | FreeBSD : Several remotely exploitable buffer overflows in gaim (6fd02439-5d70-11d8-80e3-0020ed76ef5a) | 23 Apr 200900:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | RHEL 3 : gaim (RHSA-2004:033) | 6 Jul 200400:00 | – | nessus |
![]() | Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : gaim (MDKSA-2004:006-1) | 31 Jul 200400:00 | – | nessus |
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# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
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# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-434. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
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include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
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script_id(15271);
script_version("1.23");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/04");
script_cve_id("CVE-2004-0005", "CVE-2004-0006", "CVE-2004-0007", "CVE-2004-0008");
script_bugtraq_id(9489);
script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"434");
script_name(english:"Debian DSA-434-1 : gaim - several vulnerabilities");
script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"Stefan Esser discovered several security related problems in Gaim, a
multi-protocol instant messaging client. Not all of them are
applicable for the version in Debian stable, but affected the version
in the unstable distribution at least. The problems were grouped for
the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures as follows :
- CAN-2004-0005
When the Yahoo Messenger handler decodes an octal value
for email notification functions two different kinds of
overflows can be triggered. When the MIME decoder
decoded a quoted printable encoded string for email
notification two other different kinds of overflows can
be triggered. These problems only affect the version in
the unstable distribution.
- CAN-2004-0006
When parsing the cookies within the HTTP reply header of
a Yahoo web connection a buffer overflow can happen.
When parsing the Yahoo Login Webpage the YMSG protocol
overflows stack buffers if the web page returns
oversized values. When splitting a URL into its parts a
stack overflow can be caused. These problems only affect
the version in the unstable distribution.
When an oversized keyname is read from a Yahoo Messenger packet a
stack overflow can be triggered. When Gaim is setup to use an HTTP
proxy for connecting to the server a malicious HTTP proxy can
exploit it. These problems affect all versions Debian ships.
However, the connection to Yahoo doesn't work in the version in
Debian stable.
- CAN-2004-0007
Internally data is copied between two tokens into a
fixed size stack buffer without a size check. This only
affects the version of gaim in the unstable
distribution.
- CAN-2004-0008
When allocating memory for AIM/Oscar DirectIM packets an
integer overflow can happen, resulting in a heap
overflow. This only affects the version of gaim in the
unstable distribution."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-434"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:
"Upgrade the gaim packages.
For the stable distribution (woody) these problems has been fixed in
version 0.58-2.4."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gaim");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2004/02/05");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2004/09/29");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2004-2021 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"3.0", prefix:"gaim", reference:"0.58-2.4")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.0", prefix:"gaim-common", reference:"0.58-2.4")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.0", prefix:"gaim-gnome", reference:"0.58-2.4")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
else security_hole(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
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