Security bugs are reported here via bugzilla

[Thomas Houssin <Thomas.Houssin AT gmail.com>]

Synopsis
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Certain malformed MSN messages can cause gaim to crash. Moreother, a
remote denial of service on Yahoo! was reported.

Background
==========
gaim is an instant messanger client for several protocols.

Description
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CAN-2005-1269
Remove denial of service when being offered files with names containing
non-ASCII characters.

CAN-2005-1934
Remote attackers can cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed
MSN message that leads to a memory allocation of a large size, possibly
due to an integer signedness error.

Affected packages
=================
gaim in all grimoires is affected.
This is now fixed in devel, test, stable-rc and stable grimoires (gaim
updated to 1.3.1).

Resolution
==========
All gaim users should upgrade to the latest available version:
        #scribe update
        #cast -c gaim

-- 
Thomas Houssin

Security Team Lead : Source Mage GNU/Linux http://www.sourcemage.org
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