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>> Ubuntu Security Update Fixes Gaim Denial of Service Vulnerability

Title : Ubuntu Security Update Fixes Gaim Denial of Service Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2005-0787
CVE ID : CVE-2005-1934
CWE ID : CWE-
Rated as : Low Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2005-06-16


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Ubuntu has released a security patch to correct a vulnerability identified in Gaim. This flaw resides in the MSN protocol when handling malformed MSN messages, which may be exploited to cause the application to crash. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2005-0725

Affected Products

Ubuntu 4.10
Ubuntu 5.04

Solution

Upgrade the affected package to version 1:1.0.0-1ubuntu1.6 (for Ubuntu 4.10) and 1:1.1.4-1ubuntu4.3 (for Ubuntu 5.04).

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0787
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-140-1

ChangeLog

2005-06-16 : Initial release

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