Two vulnerabilities were identified in Gaim, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands or cause a denial of service.
This first issue is due to a heap overflow error in the way Gaim processes away messages, which may be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands by sending a specially crafted away message to a Gaim user logged into AIM or ICQ.
The second flaw is due to an error when sending a file with a non-utf8 filename to a user logged into AIM or ICQ, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service.
Credits
Vulnerabilities reported by Daniel Atallah and Brandon Perry
ChangeLog
2005-08-10 : Initial release
2005-08-11 : Updated Solution and References
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