Gaim HTML denial of service
| gaim-html-dos (19381) |  Low Risk |
Description:
Gaim is vulnerable to a denial of service attack, caused by a vulnerability in the parsing of HTML. By sending specially-crafted HTML, a remote attacker could cause Gaim to crash.
Platforms Affected:
- Canonical, Ubuntu 4.10
- Gaim Project, Gaim prior to 1.1.3
- Gentoo, Linux
- MandrakeSoft, Mandrake Linux 10.0 AMD64
- MandrakeSoft, Mandrake Linux 10.0
- MandrakeSoft, Mandrake Linux 10.1 X86_64
- MandrakeSoft, Mandrake Linux 10.1
- MandrakeSoft, Mandrake Linux Corporate Server 3.0
- MandrakeSoft, Mandrake Linux Corporate Server 3.0 X86_64
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 3 ES
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 3 AS
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 3 Desktop
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 3 WS
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 4 Desktop
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 4 WS
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 4 AS
- RedHat, Enterprise Linux 4 ES
- SuSE, SuSE Linux 8.2
- SuSE, SuSE Linux 9.0
- SuSE, SuSE Linux 9.1
- SuSE, SuSE Linux 9.2
- SuSE, SuSE Linux 9.3
Remedy:
Upgrade to the latest version of Gaim (1.1.3 or later), available from the Gaim Download Web page. See References.
For SGI:
Apply the appropriate patch for your system, as listed in SGI Security Advisory 20050303-01-U. See References.
For Red Hat Linux:
Refer to RHSA-2005:215-11 for patch, upgrade, or suggested workaround information. See References.
For Gentoo Linux:
Refer to Gentoo Linux Security Announcement GLSA 2005-03-03 for patch, upgrade, or suggested workaround information. See References.
For Ubuntu Linux:
Refer to USN-85-1 for patch, upgrade, or suggested workaround information. See References.
For other distributions:
Contact your vendor for upgrade or patch information.
Consequences:
Denial of Service
References:
- Gaim Download Web page, Downloads - Gaim at http://gaim.sourceforge.net/downloads.php.
- Gaim Vulnerability, 17 February 2005, Remote DoS on receiving malformed HTML at http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/index.php?id=11.
- SGI Security Advisory 20050303-01-U, SGI Advanced Linux Environment 3 Security Update #31 at ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20050303-01-U.asc.
- BID-12589: Gaim Multiple Remote Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
- CVE-2005-0473: The HTML parsing functions in Gaim before 1.1.3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via malformed HTML that causes an invalid memory access
- GLSA-200503-03: Gaim: Multiple Denial of Service issues
- MDKSA-2005:049: Updated gaim packages fix multiple vulnerabilities
- RHSA-2005-215: gaim security update
- SA14322: Gaim Two Denial of Service Weaknesses
- SUSE-SA:2005:036: sudo: race condition arbitrary code execution
- SUSE-SR:2005:017: SUSE Security Summary Report
- US-CERT VU#523888: Gaim vulnerable to HTML processing denial of service
- USN-85-1: Gaim vulnerabilities
Reported:
Feb 18, 2005
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