FreeBSD : gaim -- MSN denial-of-service vulnerabilities (f2d6a5e1-26b9-11d9-9289-000c41e2cdad)

high Nessus Plugin ID 19168

Synopsis

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

Description

The Gaim team discovered denial-of-service vulnerabilities in the MSN protocol handler :

After accepting a file transfer request, Gaim will attempt to allocate a buffer of a size equal to the entire filesize, this allocation attempt will cause Gaim to crash if the size exceeds the amount of available memory.

Gaim allocates a buffer for the payload of each message received based on the size field in the header of the message. A malicious peer could specify an invalid size that exceeds the amount of available memory.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=7

http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=8

http://www.nessus.org/u?1fefcd77

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 19168

File Name: freebsd_pkg_f2d6a5e126b911d99289000c41e2cdad.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Published: 7/13/2005

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

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: 10/25/2004

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/19/2004