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FreeBSD : gaim remotely exploitable vulnerabilities in MSN component (5b8f9a02-ec93-11d8-b913-000c41e2cdad)

high Nessus Plugin ID 36550

Synopsis

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

Description

Sebastian Krahmer discovered several remotely exploitable buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the MSN component of gaim.

In two places in the MSN protocol plugins (object.c and slp.c), strncpy was used incorrectly; the size of the array was not checked before copying to it. Both bugs affect MSN's MSNSLP protocol, which is peer-to-peer, so this could potentially be easy to exploit.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=0

http://www.nessus.org/u?77252b36

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 36550

File Name: freebsd_pkg_5b8f9a02ec9311d8b913000c41e2cdad.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Published: 4/23/2009

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/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: 8/12/2004

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/12/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-0500