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
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
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:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
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