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gaim -- remote DoS on receiving malformed HTML

Affected packages
gaim < 1.1.4
ja-gaim < 1.1.4
ko-gaim < 1.1.4
ru-gaim < 1.1.4

Details

VuXML ID 142353df-b5cc-11d9-a788-0001020eed82
Discovery 2005-02-17
Entry 2005-04-25

The GAIM team reports:

Receiving malformed HTML can result in an invalid memory access causing Gaim to crash.

References

CVE Name CVE-2005-0208
CVE Name CVE-2005-0473
URL http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/index.php?id=11
URL http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/index.php?id=12