DSA-769-1 gaim -- memory alignment bug

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-769-1 gaim -- memory alignment bug

Date Reported:

29 Jul 2005

Affected Packages:

gaim

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-2370.

More information:

Szymon Zygmunt and Michal Bartoszkiewicz discovered a memory alignment error in libgadu (from ekg, console Gadu Gadu client, an instant messaging program) which is included in gaim, a multi-protocol instant messaging client, as well. This can not be exploited on the x86 architecture but on others, e.g. on Sparc and lead to a bus error, in other words a denial of service.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not seem to be affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.1-1.4.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your gaim package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gaim/gaim_1.2.1-1.4.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gaim/gaim_1.2.1-1.4.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gaim/gaim_1.2.1.orig.tar.gz

Architecture-independent component:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gaim/gaim-data_1.2.1-1.4_all.deb

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gaim/gaim_1.2.1-1.4_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gaim/gaim-dev_1.2.1-1.4_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gaim/gaim_1.2.1-1.4_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gaim/gaim-dev_1.2.1-1.4_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gaim/gaim_1.2.1-1.4_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gaim/gaim-dev_1.2.1-1.4_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gaim/gaim_1.2.1-1.4_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gaim/gaim-dev_1.2.1-1.4_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gaim/gaim_1.2.1-1.4_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gaim/gaim-dev_1.2.1-1.4_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gaim/gaim_1.2.1-1.4_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gaim/gaim-dev_1.2.1-1.4_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gaim/gaim_1.2.1-1.4_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gaim/gaim-dev_1.2.1-1.4_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gaim/gaim_1.2.1-1.4_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gaim/gaim-dev_1.2.1-1.4_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gaim/gaim_1.2.1-1.4_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gaim/gaim-dev_1.2.1-1.4_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gaim/gaim_1.2.1-1.4_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gaim/gaim-dev_1.2.1-1.4_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gaim/gaim_1.2.1-1.4_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gaim/gaim-dev_1.2.1-1.4_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.