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SSA-2005-242-03 gaim

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
SSA-2005-242-03 gaim

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

New gaim packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1,
and -current to fix some security issues. including:

AIM/ICQ away message buffer overflow
AIM/ICQ non-UTF-8 filename crash
Gadu-Gadu memory alignment bug

Sites that use GAIM should upgrade to the new version.

More details about these issues may be found in the Common
Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-2103
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-2102
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-2370

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Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2005 Michel Arboi

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