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SuSE-SA:2004:004: gaim

medium Nessus Plugin ID 13822

Synopsis

The remote host is missing a vendor-supplied security patch

Description

The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory SuSE-SA:2004:004 (gaim).


Gaim is a multi-protocol instant-messaging client. Stefan Esser found 12 vulnerabilities in gaim that can lead to a remote system compromise with the privileges of the user running GAIM.
The GAIM package that SUSE LINUX ships is affected by just two of these bug:
- Yahoo Packet Parser Overflow
- HTTP Proxy Connect Overflow

The first vulnerability is easy to exploit and results in a classic stack overflow which can be used to execute arbitrary code.
The latter vulnerability requires the gaim client use a HTTP proxy under the control of the attacker. The exploitation of this bug results in arbitrary code execution too.

There is no known workaround.

Please download the update package for your distribution and verify its integrity by the methods listed in section 3) of this announcement.
Then, to apply the update use the command 'rpm -Fhv file.rpm'.

Solution

http://www.suse.de/security/2004_04_gaim.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 13822

File Name: suse_SA_2004_004.nasl

Version: 1.11

Agent: unix

Published: 7/25/2004

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

Required KB Items: Host/SuSE/rpm-list