Mandriva: Subject: [Security Announce] [ MDVSA-2009:140 ] gaim
LinuxSecurity.com:
Multiple security vulnerabilities has been identified and fixed
in gaim:
Buffer overflow in the XMPP SOCKS5 bytestream server in Pidgin before
2.5.6 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via
vectors involving an outbound XMPP file transfer. NOTE: some of these
details are obtained from third party information (CVE-2009-1373).
Multiple integer overflows in the msn_slplink_process_msg functions
in the MSN protocol handler in (1) libpurple/protocols/msn/slplink.c
and (2) libpurple/protocols/msnp9/slplink.c in Pidgin before 2.5.6
on 32-bit platforms allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code
via a malformed SLP message with a crafted offset value, leading to
buffer overflows. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete
fix for CVE-2008-2927 (CVE-2009-1376).
The updated packages have been patched to prevent this.
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