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>> Gaim libgadu Memory Alignment Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Title : Gaim libgadu Memory Alignment Denial of Service Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2005-1261
CVE ID : CVE-2005-2370
CWE ID : CWE-
Rated as : Low Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2005-07-29
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A vulnerability was identified in Gaim, which may be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service. This flaw is due to memory alignment errors in libgadu when processing specially crafted incoming messages, which may be exploited to conduct denial of service attacks.
Affected Products
Gaim version 1.3.1 and prior
Solution
This issue has been fixed in CVS.
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1261
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-769
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Szymon Zygmunt and Michal Bartoszkiewicz
ChangeLog
2005-07-29 : Initial release
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