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TITLE:
gaim Two Denial of Service Weaknesses

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA15648

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15648/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

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

DESCRIPTION:
Two 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 file transfer handling for Yahoo! when processing
filenames containing non-ASCII characters can be exploited to crash a
vulnerable client.

2) A signedness error in the processing of malformed MSN message can
be exploited to crash a vulnerable client.

The weaknesses have been reported in version 1.3.0. Prior versions
may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.3.1.
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/downloads.php

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
1) Jacopo Ottaviani
2) Hugo de Bokkenrijder

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
1) http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/index.php?id=18
2) http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/index.php?id=19

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