USN-139-1: Gaim vulnerability
10 June 2005
Gaim vulnerability
Releases
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
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gaim
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Ubuntu 4.10
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gaim
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In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.