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    Jaded Network Admin nebulus200's Avatar
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    12 GAIM Remote Overflows

    Haven't seen this posted yet, but it seems fairly serious:

    http://archives.neohapsis.com/archiv...4-01/0994.html

    Application: Gaim <= 0.75
    Severity: 12 vulnerabilities were found in the instant
    messenger GAIM that allow remote compromise
    Risk: Critical
    Vendor Status: Vendor has fixed in CVS, but feels not ready for
    release because of problems with HEAD
    Reference: http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/012004.html



    No corrected versions (> 0.75) available right now...

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    No corrected versions (> 0.75) available right now...
    You sure? I just updated mine on RH last night...

    https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-032.html
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    From gaim.sourceforge.net

    January 28th, 2004 - 1:51PM EST Security vulnerabilities

    On Monday, several potential security vulnerabilities in Gaim 0.75 (and previous versions) were publicly disclosed by Stefan Esser. Due to problems with current Gaim CVS (Yahoo! still not working properly being the most influential) we are not yet ready to release 0.76. You are encouraged to get and apply this patch from the FreeBSD security team, released with the disclosure.
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    Probably should have phrased that a little better. There are source code fixes, but since I use the windows client...

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    Ah, that explains it. Thanks for the update.
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