gaim vulnerability

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2005-1269  

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.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

10 June 2005

gaim vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

  • Ubuntu 5.04
  • Ubuntu 4.10

Software Description

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 versions:

Ubuntu 5.04
gaim
Ubuntu 4.10
gaim

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

References