gaim vulnerability

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2005-1934  

A remote Denial of Service vulnerability was discovered in Gaim. A remote attacker could crash the Gaim client of an MSN user by sending a specially crafted MSN package which states an invalid body length in the header.

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

15 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. A remote attacker could crash the Gaim client of an MSN user by sending a specially crafted MSN package which states an invalid body length in the header.

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.

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