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TITLE:
Gaim Multiple Denial of Service Weaknesses

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA14815

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14815/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

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

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

1) An error in the "gaim_markup_strip_html()" function when
processing HTML can be exploited to cause an out-of-bounds read error
and crash the application.

2) An error in the IRC protocol plug-in when processing received
messages over IRC can be exploited to crash the application.

3) An error within the handling of certain file transfer requests can
be exploited to cause an out-of-bounds read error and crash a Gaim
Jabber user's application.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.2.1.
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/downloads.php

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
1-2) Jean-Yves Lefort
3) Marco Alvarez

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
1) http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/index.php?id=13
2) http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/index.php?id=14
3) http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/index.php?id=15

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