Ubuntu Security Notice USN-139-1
10th June, 2005
gaim vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 5.04
- Ubuntu 4.10
Details
A remote Denial of Service vulnerability was discovered in Gaim. By
initiating a file transfer with a file name containing certain
international characters (like an accented "a"), a remote attacker
could crash the Gaim client of an arbitrary Yahoo IM member.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:
- Ubuntu 5.04:
- gaim
- Ubuntu 4.10:
- gaim
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
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