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Ultramagnetic Advisory #001: Multiple vulnerabilities in Gaim code

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (lowhalo@hush.com)
Tue Jan 27 13:21:27 2004

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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 17:16:14 -0800
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Ultramagnetic Advisory #001: January 26th, 2004
http://ultramagnetic.sourceforge.net/advisories/001.html
Severity: 9 (High)
Document Revision: 1.0


Overview

Ultramagnetic is a concurrent fork of the Gaim instant messaging software
which adds strong end-to-end encryption and authentication using GnuPG's
libgcrypt and anonymous routing with Hacktivismo's Six/Four protocol.

Multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities have been found in the code
forked from Gaim.  Full details are available at this URL:
http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/012004.html

Note that these vulnerabilities DO NOT compromise the
integrity of the encryption or authentication.



Affected Versions

All versions prior to Ultramagnetic v0.81 are affected by CAN-2004-0006,

CAN-2004-0007, CAN-2004-0008:

v0.01 Preview Alpha 1
v0.02 Preview Alpha 2
v0.03 Preview Alpha 3
v0.10 Beta
v0.20 Beta
v0.40 Beta
v0.50 Beta
v0.55 Beta
v0.60 Beta
v0.65 Beta
v0.70 Beta
v0.80 Beta

None of the versions mentioned above are vulnerable to CAN-2004-0005.



Solution

All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to Ultramagnetic v0.81
(or later):

Source bz2:
    http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ultramagnetic/
        ultramagnetic-0.81.tar.bz2?download
    http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ultramagnetic/
        ultramagnetic-0.81.tar.bz2.sig?download

Linux x86 RPM:
    http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ultramagnetic/
        ultramagnetic-0.81-1.i386.rpm?download
    http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ultramagnetic/
        ultramagnetic-0.81-1.i386.rpm.sig?download


References

    * E-matters: 12 x Gaim remote overflows:
          http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/012004.html
    * CVE: CAN-2004-0006
    * CVE: CAN-2004-0007
    * CVE: CAN-2004-0008



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