Package name gaim
Date June 3rd, 2009
Advisory ID MDVSA-2009:127
Affected versions CS3.0

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)

Updated Packages

Corporate Server 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 Server 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

References

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2927

Upgrade

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Verification

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		rpm --checksig package.rpm
		

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