Gaim Vulnerability
| Title | MSN File transfer DOS (malloc error) |
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| Date | 19 October 2004 |
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| CVE Name | N/A |
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| Discovered By | Gaim |
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| Summary | Crash when accepting a large file transfer that exceeds the amount of available memory. |
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| Description | Remote crash. After accepting a file transfer request, Gaim will attempt to allocate a buffer of a size equal to the entire filesize, this allocation attempt will cause Gaim to crash if the size exceeds the amount of available memory. |
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| Fixed in Version | 1.0.2 |
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| Fix | Don't allocate a buffer for file transfers. |
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