Gaim Vulnerability
| Title | AIM/ICQ non-UTF-8 filename crash |
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| Date | 11 August 2005 |
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| CVE Name | CAN-2005-2102 |
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| Discovered By | Unknown |
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| Summary | Invalid filenames can cause a crash on some systems |
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| Description | A remote user could cause Gaim to crash on some systems by sending the Gaim user a file whose filename contains certain invalid characters. It is unknown what combination of systems are affected, but it is suspected that Windows users and systems with older versions of GTK+ are especially susceptible. |
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| Fixed in Version | 1.5.0 |
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| Fix | The filename is validated as UTF-8 before Gaim attemps to display it. |
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