Ubuntu Security Notice USN-106-1
5th April, 2005
gaim vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 4.10
Details
Jean-Yves Lefort discovered a buffer overflow in the
gaim_markup_strip_html() function. This caused Gaim to crash when
receiving certain malformed HTML messages. (CAN-2005-0965)
Jean-Yves Lefort also noticed that many functions that handle IRC
commands do not escape received HTML metacharacters; this allowed
remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service by injecting arbitrary
HTML code into the conversation window, popping up arbitrarily many
empty dialog boxes, or even causing Gaim to crash. (CAN-2005-0966)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:
- Ubuntu 4.10:
- gaim
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
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