5 - USN-140-1

Executive Summary

Summary
Title	Gaim vulnerability

Informations
Name	USN-140-1	First vendor Publication	2005-06-15
Vendor	Ubuntu	Last vendor Modification	2005-06-15
Severity (Vendor)	N/A	Revision	N/A

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

A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog) Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog)

The following packages are affected:

gaim

The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to version 1:1.0.0-1ubuntu1.6 (for Ubuntu 4.10), or 1:1.1.4-1ubuntu4.3 (for Ubuntu 5.04). After doing a standard system upgrade you need to restart Gaim to effect the necessary changes.

Details follow:

A remote Denial of Service vulnerability was discovered in Gaim. A remote attacker could crash the Gaim client of an MSN user by sending a specially crafted MSN package which states an invalid body length in the header.