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Bug 149533

Summary: CAN-2005-0208 Gaim HTML parsing DoS
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component: gaimAssignee: Warren Togami <wtogami>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 4.0CC: security-response-team
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: impact=important,public=20050224
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Last Closed: 2005-03-10 16:41:45 UTC Type: ---
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Proposed patch to fix this issue. none

Description Josh Bressers 2005-02-23 20:38:04 UTC
An HTML parsing bug was found in Gaim 1.1.3

Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-02-23 20:38:05 UTC
Created attachment 111348 [details]
Proposed patch to fix this issue.

Comment 2 Josh Bressers 2005-02-23 20:39:00 UTC
This issue also affects RHEL3

Comment 3 Warren Togami 2005-02-25 04:06:16 UTC
latest-pkg dist-4E-errata-candidate gaim
/mnt/redhat/beehive/comps/dist/4E-errata-candidate/gaim/1.1.4-0.EL4/SRPMS/gaim-1.1.4-0.EL4.src.rpm
latest-pkg dist-3.0E-errata-candidate gaim
/mnt/redhat/beehive/comps/dist/3.0E-errata-candidate/gaim/1.1.4-0.EL3/SRPMS/gaim-1.1.4-0.EL3.src.rpm


Comment 5 Mark J. Cox 2005-03-04 09:53:21 UTC
public at http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/index.php
removing embargo

Comment 6 Josh Bressers 2005-03-10 16:33:19 UTC
Really remove embargo.

Comment 7 Josh Bressers 2005-03-10 16:41:46 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-2005-215.html