Bug 165392 – CAN-2005-2370 gadu gadu memory alignment issue

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Bug 165392 - CAN-2005-2370 gadu gadu memory alignment issue

Summary:	CAN-2005-2370 gadu gadu memory alignment issue

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

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Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	gaim (Show other bugs)
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Version:	4.0
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Warren Togami
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Reported:	2005-08-08 16:11 EDT by Josh Bressers
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:07 EST (History)
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Fixed In Version:	RHSA-2005-627
Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2005-08-09 23:54:08 EDT
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2005:627	qe-ready	SHIPPED_LIVE	Critical: gaim security update	2005-08-09 00:00:00 EDT

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Description Josh Bressers 2005-08-08 16:11:17 EDT

Gaim contains an old copy of the libgadugadu source.  This code contains a
memory alignment bug which can cause gaim to crash.

This issue only affects the PPC and S390 platforms.

The patch is located here:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/gaim/gaim/src/protocols/gg/libgg.c?r1=1.21.2.1&r2=1.21.2.2

Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-08-08 16:13:45 EDT

This issue also affects RHEL3

Comment 2 Red Hat Bugzilla 2005-08-09 23:54:09 EDT

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

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