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gaim: remote DoS

Package(s):gaim CVE #(s):CAN-2005-1269
Created:June 10, 2005 Updated:June 14, 2005
Description: A remote Denial of Service vulnerability was discovered in Gaim. By initiating a file transfer with a file name containing certain international characters (like an accented "a"), a remote attacker could crash the Gaim client of an arbitrary Yahoo IM member.
Alerts:
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:099 2005-06-14
Slackware SSA:2005-162-01 2005-06-14
Gentoo 200506-11 2005-06-12
Ubuntu USN-139-1 2005-06-10
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