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USN-139-1: Gaim vulnerability

10 June 2005

Gaim vulnerability

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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.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 5.04
  • gaim -
Ubuntu 4.10
  • gaim -

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References