USN-139-1: Gaim vulnerability

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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References

CVE-2005-1269