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TITLE:
Gaim HTML Processing Denial of Service Weakness

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA14386

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14386/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Gaim 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/4107/

DESCRIPTION:
A weakness has been reported in Gaim, which can be exploited by
malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The weakness is caused due to an error within the processing of HTML.
This can be exploited to crash the application when receiving
specially crafted HTML.

This is similar to:
SA14322

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.1.4.
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/downloads.php

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/index.php?id=12

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA14322:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14322/

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