Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 17:57:42 -0400
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Subject: [Gaim-packagers] Gaim 1.5.0 and security problems
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Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 21:59:40 -0500

On Sun, 7 Aug 2005 18:49:32 -0400, Sean Egan wrote
> All,
> 
> Let's release 1.5.0 this week. This comes from oldstatus, and may be
> the last release from there.
> 
> -s.

First off, I'll be out of down Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

In light of our pending release on Thursday, we should discuss some security
problems (yep--again).  I don't know if we'll need CVE numbers for this, I can
never remember quite how that works.  But if we DO need a CVE number or three,
then Warren and Josh, we would all very much appreciate your assisstance, yet
again.

1. The gadu-gadu PRPL.  There was a memory alignment bug that apparently only
affected can not be exploited on x86.  I do not believe the ekg/libgadu
project was issued a CAN for this.  You can grab a patch for Gaim from:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/gaim/gaim/src/protocols/gg/libgg.c?r1=1.21
.2.1&r2=1.21.2.2

2. There is an oscar remotely exploitable crash bug.  A remote AIM or ICQ user
would need to compile their own client and send a specially crafted IM
(basically an IM containing lots of %s, and flag it as an away message).  It
results in a buffer overflow.  A fix for this has not yet been commited to
CVS, and the issue should be fairly unknown.  A patch for this is attached (I
would appreciate if some Gaim devs could double-check it--it's small).

3. Daniel Atallah fixed a crash in oscar dealing with invalid file names.  It
is remotely exploitable by anyone sending you a file with a non-utf8 filename.
 It sometimes causes a crash in pango.  It might be depending on the version
of gtk you're using.  And seems to crash Linux machines less than Windows
machines (if ever).  This has not yet been fixed in CVS, but it IS in the wild
and you can get a client from http://www.sevenz.net/ to exploit it.  A patch
is attached.  I haven't actually tested it, so hopefully it still applies. 
The logic is kosher.

Other Gaim developers: If you know of other crashes, please follow-up this
email.

Thanks!
-Mark