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Test ID: | 1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.52112 |
Category: | Conectiva Local Security Checks |
Title: | Conectiva Security Advisory CLA-2005:949 |
Summary: | NOSUMMARY |
Description: | Description: The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory CLA-2005:949. Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client. This announcement fixes three denial of service vulnerabilities that were encountered in Gaim. The fixed vulnerabilities are: CVE-2005-0965: The gaim_markup_strip_html function allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a string that contains malformed HTML, which causes an out-of-bounds read. CVE-2005-0966: The IRC protocol plugin allowed (1) remote attackers to inject arbitrary Gaim markup via irc_msg_kick, irc_msg_mode, irc_msg_part, irc_msg_quit, (2) remote attackers to inject arbitrary Pango markup and pop up empty dialog boxes via irc_msg_invite, or (3) malicious IRC servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by injecting certain Pango markup into irc_msg_badmode, irc_msg_banned, irc_msg_unknown, irc_msg_nochan functions. CVE-2005-0967: Sending a Gaim Jabber user a certain invalid file transfer request triggered an out-of-bounds read which caused Gaim to crash. For further informations on Gaim's vulnerabilities, please refer to the project's security page. Solution: The apt tool can be used to perform RPM package upgrades by running 'apt-get update' followed by 'apt-get upgrade' http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/ http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=CLA-2005:949 http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/index.php?id=a&anuncio=000949 Risk factor : High CVSS Score: 6.4 |
Cross-Ref: |
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-0965 BugTraq ID: 12999 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12999 Bugtraq: 20050401 multiple remote denial of service vulnerabilities in Gaim (Google Search) http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111238715307356&w=2 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/426078/100/0/threaded http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:071 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11292 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-365.html http://secunia.com/advisories/14815 SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SA:2005:036 (Google Search) http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_36_sudo.html Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-0966 BugTraq ID: 13003 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13003 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9185 XForce ISS Database: gaim-irc-plugin-bo(19937) https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19937 XForce ISS Database: gaim-ircmsginvite-dos(19939) https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19939 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-0967 BugTraq ID: 13004 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13004 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9657 http://securitytracker.com/id?1013645 |
Copyright | Copyright (c) 2005 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com |
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