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SuSE 9.0 security update for gaim

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SuSE 9.0 security update for gaim

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/06/2004
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/06/2004
Modified
11/18/2015

Description

The system is missing one or more SuSE security patches. This security update fixes four security issues which are registered as: CAN-2004-0754 An integer overflow in the groupware message handler exists in Gaim. CAN-2004-0784 A shell escape vulnerability in the handling of smiley theme tarball filenames could lead to arbitrary command execution. CAN-2004-0785 Buffer overflows in Gaim could lead to a denial of service or arbitrary code execution. Additionally a buffer overflow in the parse url code of gaim is fixed. This bug let to remote system compromise with the privileges of the user running gaim.

Solution(s)

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