gaim security update

Advisory:	RHSA-2002:191-05
Type:	Security Advisory
Severity:	Important
Issued on:	2002-08-27
Last updated on:	2002-09-09
Affected Products:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 2.1)
CVEs (cve.mitre.org):	CVE-2002-0989

Details

Updated gaim packages are now available for Red Hat Linux Advanced Server.
These updates fix a vulnerability in the default URL handler.

Gaim is an all-in-one instant messaging client that lets you use a number of
messaging protocols such as AIM, ICQ, and Yahoo, all at once.

Versions of gaim prior to 0.59.1 contain a bug in the URL handler of
the manual browser option. A link can be carefully crafted to contain
an arbitrary shell script which will be executed if the user clicks on
the link.

Users of gaim should update to these errata packages containing gaim
0.59.1 which is not vulnerable to this issue.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

Please note that this update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red
Hat Network, launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command:

up2date

This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate
RPMs being upgraded on your system.

Updated packages

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 2.1)

SRPMS:
gaim-0.59.1-0.2.1.src.rpm File outdated by: RHSA-2005:589	`MD5: 17470f60de38d9e0b6459755db1f31d4`

IA-32:
gaim-0.59.1-0.2.1.i386.rpm File outdated by: RHSA-2005:589	`MD5: 1324d5e5c8ab969735e803aed174a813`

References

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2002-0989.html
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ChangeLog

Keywords

gaim, URL

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