Bug 165402

Summary: CAN-2005-2103 Gaim malformed away message remote code execution
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component: gaimAssignee: Christopher Aillon <caillon>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Priority: medium    
Version: 4.0CC: security-response-team
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: impact=critical,public=20050811,reported=20050808,source=gaim
Fixed In Version: RHSA-2005-627 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Josh Bressers 2005-08-08 20:54:52 UTC 
2. There is an oscar remotely exploitable crash bug.  A remote AIM or ICQ user
would need to compile their own client and send a specially crafted IM
(basically an IM containing lots of %s, and flag it as an away message).  It
results in a buffer overflow.  A fix for this has not yet been commited to
CVS, and the issue should be fairly unknown.

The original discovery is here:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1235427&group_id=235&atid=100235
Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-08-08 20:55:35 UTC 
This issue also affects RHEL3 and RHEL2.1
Comment 2 Josh Bressers 2005-08-08 20:56:39 UTC 
Created attachment 117560 [details]
Proposed patch for this issue
Comment 3 Josh Bressers 2005-08-10 03:36:40 UTC 
Lifting embargo
Comment 4 Red Hat Bugzilla 2005-08-10 03:54:25 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-627.html