Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2009-127 - It was discovered that Gaim did not properly handle certain malformed messages in the MSN protocol handler. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted message and possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges.
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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:127
https://www.mandriva.com/security/
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Package : gaim
Date : June 3, 2009
Affected: Corporate 3.0
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Problem Description:
It was discovered that Gaim did not properly handle certain malformed
messages in the MSN protocol handler. A remote attacker could send
a specially crafted message and possibly execute arbitrary code with
user privileges. (CVE-2008-2927)
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References:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2927
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Updated Packages:
Corporate 3.0:
f33a114cbf007f28fd6e8198ca1ebca2 corporate/3.0/i586/gaim-1.5.0-0.2.C30mdk.i586.rpm
36237a65920d5ed005aa3a15a4cd3c56 corporate/3.0/i586/gaim-devel-1.5.0-0.2.C30mdk.i586.rpm
638615c071a4118e4ecbec232930308d corporate/3.0/i586/gaim-perl-1.5.0-0.2.C30mdk.i586.rpm
c4d0735b587705b70c1423b4a79d89ca corporate/3.0/i586/gaim-tcl-1.5.0-0.2.C30mdk.i586.rpm
7db03353a62b5de39906113c585c5fb4 corporate/3.0/i586/libgaim-remote0-1.5.0-0.2.C30mdk.i586.rpm
671616d112af90f9cffc359aa08c764f corporate/3.0/i586/libgaim-remote0-devel-1.5.0-0.2.C30mdk.i586.rpm
43d70b5e7e3dda956660cda4a88e9e8b corporate/3.0/SRPMS/gaim-1.5.0-0.2.C30mdk.src.rpm
Corporate 3.0/X86_64:
1c01cd160fc75a94efec2aa945e36b35 corporate/3.0/x86_64/gaim-1.5.0-0.2.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
8262c9b0566cd80792c0bdc937821125 corporate/3.0/x86_64/gaim-devel-1.5.0-0.2.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
d3ca7daf40fcae4792f3e005e546a1f2 corporate/3.0/x86_64/gaim-perl-1.5.0-0.2.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
23d7f53561346118cbf3aef045a325a5 corporate/3.0/x86_64/gaim-tcl-1.5.0-0.2.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
d1f44f583038fe88d01afb1df936072f corporate/3.0/x86_64/lib64gaim-remote0-1.5.0-0.2.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
fbb9ef34e9771a666717d6ea45246cf1 corporate/3.0/x86_64/lib64gaim-remote0-devel-1.5.0-0.2.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
43d70b5e7e3dda956660cda4a88e9e8b corporate/3.0/SRPMS/gaim-1.5.0-0.2.C30mdk.src.rpm
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