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[USN-168-1] Gaim vulnerabilities



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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-168-1            August 12, 2005
gaim vulnerabilities
CAN-2005-2102, CAN-2005-2103, CAN-2005-2370
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A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog)
Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog)

The following packages are affected:

gaim

The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to
version 1:1.0.0-1ubuntu1.8 (for Ubuntu 4.10), or 1:1.1.4-1ubuntu4.4
(for Ubuntu 5.04).  After performing a standard system upgrade you
need to restart Gaim to effect the necessary changes.

Details follow:

Daniel Atallah discovered a Denial of Service vulnerability in the
file transfer handler of OSCAR (the module that handles various
instant messaging protocols like ICQ). A remote attacker could crash
the Gaim client of an user by attempting to send him a file with
a name that contains invalid UTF-8 characters. (CAN-2005-2102)

It was found that specially crafted "away" messages triggered a buffer
overflow. A remote attacker could exploit this to crash the Gaim
client or possibly even execute arbitrary code with the permissions of
the Gaim user. (CAN-2005-2103)

Szymon Zygmunt and Michał Bartoszkiewicz discovered a memory alignment
error in the Gadu library, which was fixed in USN-162-1. However, it
was discovered that Gaim contains a copy of the vulnerable code. By
sending specially crafted messages over the Gadu protocol, a remote
attacker could crash Gaim. (CAN-2005-2370)

Updated packages for Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog):

  Source archives:

    
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gaim/gaim_1.0.0-1ubuntu1.8.diff.gz
      Size/MD5:    49554 19d8f02e32c2bfbb781961bc4b29b6c6
    http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gaim/gaim_1.0.0-1ubuntu1.8.dsc
      Size/MD5:      853 07f788c5d240af40778e4b84a280b7e8
    http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gaim/gaim_1.0.0.orig.tar.gz
      Size/MD5:  6985979 7dde686aace751a49dce734fd0cb7ace

  amd64 architecture (Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon)

    
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gaim/gaim_1.0.0-1ubuntu1.8_amd64.deb
      Size/MD5:  3445098 39cc6718175688a9eb1c618552bd1144

  i386 architecture (x86 compatible Intel/AMD)

    
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gaim/gaim_1.0.0-1ubuntu1.8_i386.deb
      Size/MD5:  3355494 484ba99bfb13a57b46c2ac1bac02d4a7

  powerpc architecture (Apple Macintosh G3/G4/G5)

    
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gaim/gaim_1.0.0-1ubuntu1.8_powerpc.deb
      Size/MD5:  3418764 7e6a6f488a4c9ea5f7df9ead0e9374c5

Updated packages for Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog):

  Source archives:

    
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gaim/gaim_1.1.4-1ubuntu4.4.diff.gz
      Size/MD5:   109435 fbb5c0bb0acf56ae1b30b883d434091a
    http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gaim/gaim_1.1.4-1ubuntu4.4.dsc
      Size/MD5:      991 231442b5411b0b85206a8c11072eb938
    http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gaim/gaim_1.1.4.orig.tar.gz
      Size/MD5:  5188552 b55bf3217b271918384f3f015a6e5b62

  Architecture independent packages:

    
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gaim/gaim-data_1.1.4-1ubuntu4.4_all.deb
      Size/MD5:   603832 187b963e949e4f2d7f72562a6c1c9842

  amd64 architecture (Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon)

    
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gaim/gaim-dev_1.1.4-1ubuntu4.4_amd64.deb
      Size/MD5:   101638 6e5f72417c9d69abf0fc2088d5daf583
    
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gaim/gaim_1.1.4-1ubuntu4.4_amd64.deb
      Size/MD5:   934286 739c508464a48d5fdbd3135354f23832

  i386 architecture (x86 compatible Intel/AMD)

    
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gaim/gaim-dev_1.1.4-1ubuntu4.4_i386.deb
      Size/MD5:   101638 66c79b84fe8ba9e3157c135749244b1b
    
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gaim/gaim_1.1.4-1ubuntu4.4_i386.deb
      Size/MD5:   845702 66e2879305e03414e5e3f12ac4d6b863

  powerpc architecture (Apple Macintosh G3/G4/G5)

    
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gaim/gaim-dev_1.1.4-1ubuntu4.4_powerpc.deb
      Size/MD5:   101638 31ffb30d793c1d0913777c431f284441
    
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gaim/gaim_1.1.4-1ubuntu4.4_powerpc.deb
      Size/MD5:   910546 29bdc18bf2b6e4d97e708802a39dde85

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