How To Protect Against Instant Messaging Vulnerabilities: Blocking Google Talk

Google Talk is an application used to call or send instant messages for Microsoft Windows operating systems. Instant messaging applications may risk an organization's security in the following ways:1. Vulnerabilities in IM applications could be exploited to compromise a user's system i.e MSN...

icq-xss.txt

Title: ICQ Cross Site Scripting Author: Simo Ben youssef aka 6mOHaCk Date: 10 January 2006 MorX Security Research Team http://www.morx.org Service: Web/Chat Vendor: ICQ.com Vulnerability: Cross Site Scripting / Cookie-Theft / Relogin attacks Severity: Medium/High Tested on: Microsoft IE 6.0 and...

Kadu Gadu-Gadu instant messaging client DoS

Application hangs on malcrafted message...

Kadu remote DoS

Hi. Kadu is a Gadu-Gadu instant messaging open source client. By sending message with richtext ,image basic informations and nothing else to speciffic UIN thru Gadu-Gadu server Kadu is stopping to respond or is shutting down immidietly. Behavior depends on version 0.4.2 In most cases Kadu freezes...

Microsoft DirectX DirectShow AVI Processing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Description A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the Microsoft Windows DirectX component. This issue is related to processing of .AVI Audio Visual Interleave media files. The specific vulnerability exists in DirectShow and could be exposed through applications that employ DirectShow to proce...

[Full-disclosure] SimpleCDR-X - Insecure tempfile handling

SimpleCDR-X - Insecure tempfile handling +----------------------------------------+ Date: 2005-09-15 URL: http://ogre.rocky-road.net/cdr.shtml Vendor Notified: Days ago, no answer. Version: 1.3.3 latest - Description - Files beeing recorded can be read by any user on the system due to insecure...

Mercora IMRadio Detection

Mercora IMRadio is installed on the remote host. Mercora is an Internet radio tuner that also provides music sharing, instant messaging, chat, and forum capabilities. This software may not be suitable for use in a business environment. Josh Zlatin-Amishav GPLv2 include"compat.inc"; if description...

Critical: Red Hat Security Advisory: gaim security update

An updated gaim package that fixes a buffer overflow security issue is now available. This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Gaim is an Internet Instant Messaging client. A heap based buffer overflow issue was discovered in the way Gai...

Debian DSA-767-1 : ekg - integer overflows

Marcin Slusarz discovered two integer overflow vulnerabilities in libgadu, a library provided and used by ekg, a console Gadu Gadu client, an instant messaging program, that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code. The library is also used by other packages such as kopete, which should be...

[ GLSA 200507-26 ] GNU Gadu, CenterICQ, Kadu, EKG, libgadu: Remote code execution in Gadu library

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[SECURITY] [DSA 760-1] New ekg packages fix several vulnerabilities

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 760-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze July 18th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Debian DSA-760-1 : ekg - several vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in ekg, a console Gadu Gadu client, an instant messaging program. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following vulnerabilities : - CAN-2005-1850 Marcin Owsiany and Wojtek Kaniewski discovered insecure temporary file creatio...

DSA-760-1 ekg - several

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[Full-disclosure] [ZH2005-16SA] Insecure temporary file creation in Skype for Linux

ZH2005-16SA Insecure temporary file creation in Skype for Linux Application: Skype for Linux Version affected: = 1.1.0.20 Vendor website : http://www.skype.com Author: Giovanni Delvecchio e-mail: [email protected] About Skype ======== Skype is a free program that uses the latest P2P technolog...

Debian DSA-734-1 : gaim - denial of service

Two denial of service problems have been discovered in Gaim, a multi-protocol instant messaging client. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CAN-2005-1269 A malformed Yahoo filename can result in a crash of the application. - CAN-2005-1934 A...

DSA-734-1 gaim - denial of service

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RHEL 3 / 4 : gaim (RHSA-2005:518)

An updated gaim package that fixes two denial of service issues is now available. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Gaim application is a multi-protocol instant messaging client. Jacopo Ottaviani discovered a bug in the way Ga...

Gaim: Denial of Service vulnerabilities

Background Gaim is a full featured instant messaging client which handles a variety of instant messaging protocols. Description Jacopo Ottaviani discovered a vulnerability in the Yahoo! file transfer code when being offered files with names containing non-ASCII characters CAN-2005-1269. Hugo de...

AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) Software Detection

AOL Instant Messenger AIM is installed on the Windows host. AIM is an instant-messaging application. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid18431; scriptversion"1.19"; scriptsetattributeattribute:"pluginmodificationdate", value:"2022/02/01";...

Critical: Red Hat Security Advisory: gaim security update

An updated gaim package that fixes security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1. This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The Gaim application is a multi-protocol instant messaging client. A stack based buffer overfl...