TITLE: Gaim Two Denial of Service Weaknesses SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA14322 VERIFY ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/14322/ 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 within the parsing of received SNAC packets can be exploited to cause a user's Gaim application to become unresponsive when receiving specially crafted packets. 2) An error within the processing of HTML can be exploited to crash the application when receiving specially crafted HTML. SOLUTION: Update to version 1.1.3. http://gaim.sourceforge.net/downloads.php PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY: Reported by vendor. ORIGINAL ADVISORY: http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/index.php?id=10 http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/index.php?id=11 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- About: This Advisory was delivered by Secunia as a free service to help everybody keeping their systems up to date against the latest vulnerabilities. Subscribe: http://secunia.com/secunia_security_advisories/ Definitions: (Criticality, Where etc.) http://secunia.com/about_secunia_advisories/ Please Note: Secunia recommends that you verify all advisories you receive by clicking the link. Secunia NEVER sends attached files with advisories. Secunia does not advise people to install third party patches, only use those supplied by the vendor. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: Secunia Security Advisories http://secunia.com/sec_adv_unsubscribe/?email=packet%40packetstormsecurity.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------