USN-139-1: Gaim vulnerability
10 June 2005
gaim vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 5.04
- Ubuntu 4.10
Software Description
Details
A remote Denial of Service vulnerability was discovered in Gaim. By initiating a file transfer with a file name containing certain international characters (like an accented “a”), a remote attacker could crash the Gaim client of an arbitrary Yahoo IM member.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
- Ubuntu 5.04
- gaim
- Ubuntu 4.10
- gaim
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.