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Bug 157202

Summary:	CAN-2005-1262 Gaim MSN DoS
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component:	gaim	Assignee:	Warren Togami <wtogami>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	4.0	CC:	security-response-team
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	impact=important,public=20050510,source=gaim,reported=20050508
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Last Closed:	2005-05-11 08:33:40 UTC	Type:	---
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Description Josh Bressers 2005-05-09 11:59:23 UTC

It turns out that this is a potential Remote DoS bug resulting from not
checking a pointer for non-NULL before passing it to strncmp which
results in a crash. This can be triggered by a remote client sending an
SLP message with an empty body.

The fix for this is in CVS:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/gaim/gaim/src/protocols/msn/slp.c?r1=1.12.2.12&r2=1.12.2.13

Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-05-09 12:00:07 UTC

This issue should also affect RHEL3 (maybe RHEL2.1, it needs investigation).

Comment 2 Mark J. Cox 2005-05-11 08:03:36 UTC

public, removing embargo

Comment 3 Mark J. Cox 2005-05-11 08:33:40 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-2005-429.html