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Debian Security Update Fixes Gaim Denial of Service Vulnerability

Title : Debian Security Update Fixes Gaim Denial of Service Vulnerability
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2005-1267
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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Technical Description

Debian has released updated packages to correct a vulnerability identified in Gaim. 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. For additional information, see : FrSIRT/ADV-2005-1261

ChangeLog

2005-07-29 : Initial release

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