FreeBSD : gaim -- heap overflow exploitable by malicious GroupWise server (e16293f0-26b7-11d9-9289-000c41e2cdad)

Sean infamous42md reports that a malicious GroupWise messaging server may be able to exploit a heap buffer overflow in gaim, leading to arbitrary code execution. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from the...

Slackware 10.0 / 10.1 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : gaim (SSA:2005-162-01)

New gaim packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix some minor security issues. Sites that use GAIM should upgrade to the new version. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted fro...

FreeBSD : gaim -- buffer overflow in MSN protocol support (1e6c4008-245f-11d9-b584-0050fc56d258)

Due to a buffer overflow in the MSN protocol support for gaim 0.79 to 1.0.1, it is possible for remote clients to do a denial-of-service attack on the application. This is caused by an unbounded copy operation, which writes to the wrong buffer. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc...

Slackware 9.0 / 9.1 / current : GAIM security update (SSA:2004-026-01)

GAIM is a GTK2-based Instant Messaging IM client. New GAIM packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, and -current. 12 vulnerabilities were found in the instant messenger GAIM that allow remote compromise. All sites using GAIM should upgrade to these new packages. These are based on GAIM 0.75...

FreeBSD : gaim -- MSN denial-of-service vulnerabilities (f2d6a5e1-26b9-11d9-9289-000c41e2cdad)

The Gaim team discovered denial-of-service vulnerabilities in the MSN protocol handler : After accepting a file transfer request, Gaim will attempt to allocate a buffer of a size equal to the entire filesize, this allocation attempt will cause Gaim to crash if the size exceeds the amount of...

FreeBSD : gaim -- remote DoS on receiving malformed HTML (3fa2b372-a9f5-11d9-a788-0001020eed82)

The GAIM team reports : The gaimmarkupstriphtml function in Gaim 1.2.0, and possibly earlier versions, 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. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

Slackware 10.0 / 10.1 / 9.1 / current : Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird (SSA:2005-085-01)

New Mozilla packages are available for Slackware 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix various security issues and bugs. See the Mozilla site for a complete list of the issues patched: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.htmlMo zilla Also updated are Firefox and...

FreeBSD : gaim (1980)

The following package needs to be updated: gaim %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. This script contains information extracted from VuXML : Copyright 2003-2006 Jacques Vidrine and contributors Redistribution and use in source VuXML and 'compiled' forms SGML, HTML, PDF, PostScript...

Slackware 10.0 / 9.1 / current : gaim (SSA:2004-239-01)

New gaim packages are available for Slackware 9.1, 10.0 and -current to fix several security issues. Sites that use GAIM should upgrade to the new version. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware...

Slackware 10.0 / 9.1 / current : gaim updated again (SSA:2004-240-01)

A couple of bugs were found in the gaim 0.82 release, and gaim-0.82.1 was released to fix them. In addition, gaim-encryption-2.29 did not work with gaim-0.82 due to changes in the header files, so the gaim-encryption plugin has also been updated to gaim-encryption-2.30. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C...

FreeBSD : gaim -- remote crash on some protocols (889061af-c427-11d9-ac59-02061b08fc24)

The GAIM team reports that GAIM is vulnerable to a denial-of-service vulnerability which can cause GAIM to crash : It is possible for a remote user to overflow a static buffer by sending an IM containing a very large URL greater than 8192 bytes to the Gaim user. This is not possible on all...

FreeBSD : gaim -- Content-Length header denial-of-service vulnerability (ad61657d-26b9-11d9-9289-000c41e2cdad)

Sean infamous42md reports : When a remote server provides a large 'content-length' header value, Gaim will attempt to allocate a buffer to store the content, however this allocation attempt will cause Gaim to crash if the length exceeds the amount of possible memory. This happens when reading...

FreeBSD : gaim -- MSN remote DoS vulnerability (ad5e70bb-c429-11d9-ac59-02061b08fc24)

The GAIM team reports : Potential remote denial of service bug resulting from not checking a pointer for non-NULL before passing it to strncmp, which results in a crash. This can be triggered by a remote client sending an SLP message with an empty body. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

FreeBSD : gaim -- multiple buffer overflows (4260eacb-26b8-11d9-9289-000c41e2cdad)

Sean infamous42md reports several situations in gaim that may result in exploitable buffer overflows : - Rich Text Format RTF messages in Novell GroupWise protocol - Unsafe use of gethostbyname in zephyr protocol - URLs which are over 2048 bytes long once decoded %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable...

FreeBSD : gaim -- remote DoS on receiving malformed HTML (142353df-b5cc-11d9-a788-0001020eed82)

The GAIM team reports : Receiving malformed HTML can result in an invalid memory access causing Gaim to crash. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from the FreeBSD VuXML database : Copyright 2003-2018 Jacques...

FreeBSD : gaim -- Yahoo! remote crash vulnerability (2701611f-df5c-11d9-b875-0001020eed82)

Jacopo Ottaviani reports that Gaim can be crashed by being offered files with names containing non-ASCII characters via the Yahoo! protocol. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from the FreeBSD VuXML database :...

Slackware 10.0 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : gaim (SSA:2004-296-01)

New gaim packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, 10.0 and -current to fix a buffer overflow in the MSN protocol. Sites that use GAIM should upgrade to the new version. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted...

Slackware 10.0 / 10.1 / 9.0 / 9.1 / current : gaim (SSA:2005-133-01)

New gaim packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix several security issues. Sites that use GAIM should upgrade to the new version. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from...

CVE-2005-2225

Microsoft MSN Messenger allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a plaintext message containing the ".pif" string, which is interpreted as a malicious file extension and causes users to be kicked from a group conversation. NOTE: it has been reported that Gaim is also affected, so...

EUVD-2005-2226

Microsoft MSN Messenger allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a plaintext message containing the ".pif" string, which is interpreted as a malicious file extension and causes users to be kicked from a group conversation. NOTE: it has been reported that Gaim is also affected, so...