Executive Summary

Summary
Title New gaim packages fix denial of service
Informations
Name DSA-716 First vendor Publication 2005-04-27
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2005-04-27
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 1

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

It has been discovered that certain malformed SNAC packets sent by other AIM or ICQ users can trigger an infinite loop in Gaim, a multi-protocol instant messaging client, and hence lead to a denial of service of the client.

Two more denial of service conditions have been discovered in newer versions of Gaim which are fixed in the package in sid but are not present in the package in woody.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.58-2.5.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 1.1.3-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your gaim packages.

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-716

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10433
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10433
Title: Gaim before 1.1.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via malformed SNAC packets from (1) AIM or (2) ICQ.
Description: Gaim before 1.1.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via malformed SNAC packets from (1) AIM or (2) ICQ.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2005-0472
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
CentOS Linux 3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
CentOS Linux 4
Oracle Linux 4
 Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 4
Os 4
Os 2
Os 3
Os 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2008-09-24 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200503-03 (gaim)
File : nvt/glsa_200503_03.nasl
2008-09-04 Name : FreeBSD Ports: gaim, ja-gaim, ko-gaim, ru-gaim
File : nvt/freebsd_gaim10.nasl
2008-01-17 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 716-1 (gaim)
File : nvt/deb_716_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
13923 Gaim Malformed SNAC Packet Parsing DoS

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2006-01-15 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-85-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2005-09-12 Name : The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2005-159.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2005-09-12 Name : The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2005-160.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2005-07-13 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_8b0e94ccb5cd11d9a7880001020eed82.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2005-05-11 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.
File : redhat-RHSA-2005-432.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2005-04-28 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-716.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2005-03-10 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.
File : redhat-RHSA-2005-215.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2005-03-06 Name : The remote Mandrake Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandrake_MDKSA-2005-049.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2005-03-02 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200503-03.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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