metadata/glsa/glsa-200408-27.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">

<glsa id="200408-27">
  <title>Gaim: New vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>
    Gaim contains several security issues that might allow an attacker to
    execute arbitrary code or commands.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">Gaim</product>
  <announced>August 27, 2004</announced>
  <revised>May 22, 2006: 02</revised>
  <bug>61457</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-im/gaim" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.81-r5</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.81-r5</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for Linux which
    supports many instant messaging protocols.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Gaim fails to do proper bounds checking when:
    </p>
    <ul>
    <li>Handling MSN messages (partially fixed with GLSA 200408-12).</li>
    <li>Handling rich text format messages.</li>
    <li>Resolving local hostname.</li>
    <li>Receiving long URLs.</li>
    <li>Handling groupware messages.</li>
    <li>Allocating memory for webpages with fake content-length
    header.</li>
    </ul>
    <p>
    Furthermore Gaim fails to escape filenames when using drag and drop
    installation of smiley themes.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    These vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to crash Gaim or execute
    arbitrary code or commands with the permissions of the user running
    Gaim.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time. All users are encouraged to
    upgrade to the latest available version of Gaim.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All gaim users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge sync
    
    # emerge -pv &quot;&gt;=net-im/gaim-0.81-r5&quot;
    # emerge &quot;&gt;=net-im/gaim-0.81-r5&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/index.php">Gaim security issues</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-0500">CVE-2004-0500</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-0754">CVE-2004-0754</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-0784">CVE-2004-0784</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-0785">CVE-2004-0785</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Thu, 26 Aug 2004 15:30:26 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Thu, 26 Aug 2004 19:01:27 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
</glsa>