Secunia Security Advisory - KDE has issued an update for Kopete. This fixes some vulnerabilities in libgadu, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or compromise a vulnerable system.
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TITLE:
KDE Kopete update for libgadu
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA16155
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/16155/
CRITICAL:
Highly critical
IMPACT:
DoS, System access
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
KDE 3.x
http://secunia.com/product/219/
DESCRIPTION:
KDE has issued an update for Kopete. This fixes some vulnerabilities
in libgadu, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to
cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or compromise a vulnerable system.
For more information:
SA16140
The vulnerabilities have been reported in all versions of Kopete
included in KDE 3.2.3 through KDE 3.4.1.
SOLUTION:
Apply patches.
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/security_patches
KDE 3.4.1:
675008c8bc9d7edf4d0034a398d15cf0 post-3.4.1-kdenetwork-libgadu.patch
KDE 3.3.2:
73ebcef42173bf567d473414693898b0 post-3.3.2-kdenetwork-libgadu.patch
KDE 3.2.3:
69e3379085aeaeecf034468d18a900f6 post-3.2.3-kdenetwork-libgadu.patch
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20050721-1.txt
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA16140:
http://secunia.com/advisories/16140/
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