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gaim -- MSN Remote DoS vulnerability

Description:

The GAIM team reports:

Remote attackers can cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed MSN message that leads to a memory allocation of a large size, possibly due to an integer signedness error.

References:

Affects:

portaudit: gaim -- MSN Remote DoS vulnerability

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Oliver Eikemeier <eik@FreeBSD.org>