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Created attachment 15668 [details]
email by stefan esser

There is no patch included but a detailed description of the bugs.

0.76 will include all fixes. Some fixes are already in their CVS. 

Hi Mads, 
please ask Chris (???) about an version-upgrade for all affected gaim 
versions. Thank you. 

Yes, if it's that simple, which I doubt.

I checked their CVS, and I cannot see the fixes yet, and they still
haven't release 0.76 yet.

I'm monitoring it though.

First off, I want to say a version upgrade is not a possibility.

Second I've sat down and looked through the items, here's the deal:

Last shipped version we have is gaim-0.67 which is fairly old.
I could only find 3 of the holes mentioned, but they're present in all versions
all the way back to 0.50 which we shipped in 8.0.

What I need from you (the security responsible person) now, is that you
doublecheck that I'm right, since it's possible I missed a bit. It's as you
said really well described in the mail from S. Esser, so no big deal.

~mmj/gaim has all the trees, with the patch (gaim-%version-secfix.diff)

I also need a PATCHINFO.

Created attachment 15738 [details]
gaim.patch

patch from freebsd

Created attachment 15739 [details]
patchinfo-box.gaim

Created attachment 15740 [details]
patchinfo.gaim

patches look ok 

Good, do you have a PATCHINFO file?

I wrote one. Submitted for 8.0 -> 9.0 and patchinfo in /work/src/done/PATCHINFO

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the patchinfos were in comment #8 and #9. 
 
reopened and reassigned for tracking 

Ah, feel free to change the one I made. The packages were checked in the
respective distributions already.

Hi Mads, 
one patch from Stefan eser was wrong. 
So, Harald will reject the current packages and we need new ones. 
 
Here his mail: 
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 19:51:58 +0100 
From: Stefan Esser <s.esser@e-matters.de> 
To: vendor-sec@lst.de 
Cc: gaim@marko.net, lowhalo@hush.com 
Subject: [vendor-sec] Problem with GAIM-Patch 
 
Hi, 
 
I was just contacted by a person that was confused by the Gaim patches. 
And he was right to be confused the patch is broken. 
 
This will result in gaim crashing on bad yahoo packets. 
 
                while (pos + 1 < len) { 
                        if (data[pos] == 0xc0 && data[pos + 1] == 0x80) 
                                break; 
+                       if (x >= sizeof(key)-1) { 
+                               x++; 
+                               continue; 
+                       } 
                        key[x++] = data[pos++]; 
                } 
+               if (x >= sizeof(key)-1) { 
+                       x = 0; 
+               } 
                key[x] = 0; 
 
this code lacks a pos++; after the x++; before the continue. This will 
result in a very long loop and then a crash. (I suppose that the 
comparision is done signed, otherwise it will only loop and loop 
until x overflows and then start overwriting key from the beginning) 
 
Basicly I do not know why the patch was broken, because the version 
of 0.75 I have here is okay. Must have been a problem in the diff 
against the CVS. 
 
Stefan 

Are you our package is wrong Thomas? I took what the gaim people have in their
CVS.

I looked at the source and the patch seems wrong. 
 
 
It parses the paket and copies a byte from data[pos] to key[x]. 
When the code skips the loop it increments the x but not the pos 
index variable so we get out-of-sync. 
 

Agreed. But then we should wait for the gaim people to fix it correctly.

No, we can't wait. 
Their response to these bugs is not very positive and every other vendor 
already released new packages. 
We should hurry up to release ours too. The advisory is ready, we just need 
the packages. 
Just try: 
+                       if (x >= sizeof(key)-1) { 
+                               x++;pos++; 
+                               continue; 
+                       } 
in the patch to avoid adjusting the line-numbers of the old diff file 
or making new diff files from the source. 

Ok, I did this and submitted for 8.0 -> 9.0.

You take care of the patchinfos this time please

Ok, I think my part is done here. Thomas, what should happen now?

thanks Mads. 
 
packages approved. 

CVE-2004-0005 CVE-2004-0006 CVE-2004-0007

CVE-2004-0007: CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)