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gaim -- MSN remote DoS vulnerability

Affected packages
	gaim	<	1.3.0
	ja-gaim	<	1.3.0
	ko-gaim	<	1.3.0
	ru-gaim	<	1.3.0

Details

VuXML ID	ad5e70bb-c429-11d9-ac59-02061b08fc24
Discovery	2005-05-10
Entry	2005-05-14

The GAIM team reports:

Potential remote denial of service 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.

[source]

References

CVE Name	CVE-2005-1262
URL	http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/index.php?id=17