Debian Security Advisory

DSA-769-1 gaim -- memory alignment bug

Date Reported:

29 Jul 2005

Affected Packages:

gaim

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-2370.

More information:

Szymon Zygmunt and Michal Bartoszkiewicz discovered a memory alignment error in libgadu (from ekg, console Gadu Gadu client, an instant messaging program) which is included in gaim, a multi-protocol instant messaging client, as well. This can not be exploited on the x86 architecture but on others, e.g. on Sparc and lead to a bus error, in other words a denial of service.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not seem to be affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.1-1.4.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your gaim package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gaim/gaim_1.2.1-1.4.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gaim/gaim_1.2.1-1.4.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gaim/gaim_1.2.1.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gaim/gaim-data_1.2.1-1.4_all.deb
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gaim/gaim_1.2.1-1.4_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gaim/gaim-dev_1.2.1-1.4_alpha.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gaim/gaim_1.2.1-1.4_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gaim/gaim-dev_1.2.1-1.4_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gaim/gaim_1.2.1-1.4_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gaim/gaim-dev_1.2.1-1.4_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gaim/gaim_1.2.1-1.4_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gaim/gaim-dev_1.2.1-1.4_ia64.deb
HPPA:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gaim/gaim_1.2.1-1.4_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gaim/gaim-dev_1.2.1-1.4_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gaim/gaim_1.2.1-1.4_m68k.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gaim/gaim-dev_1.2.1-1.4_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gaim/gaim_1.2.1-1.4_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gaim/gaim-dev_1.2.1-1.4_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gaim/gaim_1.2.1-1.4_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gaim/gaim-dev_1.2.1-1.4_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gaim/gaim_1.2.1-1.4_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gaim/gaim-dev_1.2.1-1.4_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gaim/gaim_1.2.1-1.4_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gaim/gaim-dev_1.2.1-1.4_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gaim/gaim_1.2.1-1.4_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gaim/gaim-dev_1.2.1-1.4_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.