Gaim Two Denial of Service Weaknesses
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“Secunia Advisory: SA14322
Critical: Not critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch
Software: Gaim 1.x
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“
