---------------------------------------------------------------------- Monitor, Filter, and Manage Security Information - Filtering and Management of Secunia advisories - Overview, documentation, and detailed reports - Alerting via email and SMS Request Trial: https://ca.secunia.com/?f=l ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------