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FreeBSD : gaim -- AIM/ICQ remote denial of service vulnerability (8b0e94cc-b5cd-11d9-a788-0001020eed82)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 19020

Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

The GAIM team reports that GAIM is vulnerable to a denial-of-service vulnerability which can cause GAIM to freeze :

Certain malformed SNAC packets sent by other AIM or ICQ users can trigger an infinite loop in Gaim when parsing the SNAC. The remote user would need a custom client, able to generate malformed SNACs.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.pidgin.im/security/index.php?id=10

http://www.nessus.org/u?c153be34

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 19020

File Name: freebsd_pkg_8b0e94ccb5cd11d9a7880001020eed82.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Published: 7/13/2005

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:gaim, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:ja-gaim, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:ko-gaim, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:ru-gaim, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Patch Publication Date: 4/25/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/17/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0472