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<glsa id="200410-23">
  <title>Gaim: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>
    Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Gaim which could allow a remote
    attacker to crash the application, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">gaim</product>
  <announced>October 24, 2004</announced>
  <revised>October 24, 2004: 01</revised>
  <bug>68271</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-im/gaim" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.0.2</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.0.2</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Gaim is a full featured instant messaging client which handls a variety of
    instant messaging protocols.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    A possible buffer overflow exists in the code processing MSN SLP messages
    (CAN-2004-0891). memcpy() was used without validating the size of the
    buffer, and an incorrect buffer was used as destination under certain
    circumstances. Additionally, memory allocation problems were found in the
    processing of MSN SLP messages and the receiving of files. These issues
    could lead Gaim to try to allocate more memory than available, resulting in
    the crash of the application.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could crash Gaim and possibly execute arbitrary code by
    exploiting the buffer overflow.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Gaim users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge sync

    # emerge -pv ">=net-im/gaim-1.0.2"
    # emerge ">=net-im/gaim-1.0.2"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0891">CAN-2004-0891</uri>
    <uri link="http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/">Gaim Security Issues</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Fri, 22 Oct 2004 00:52:11 +0000">
    lewk
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Fri, 22 Oct 2004 08:35:43 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Sat, 23 Oct 2004 13:06:09 +0000">
    vorlon078
  </metadata>
</glsa>