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Secunia Advisories
August 10, 2005

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Below are the Secunia Security Advisories rated as Highly Critical (or higher) from August 5, 2005.

  • Secunia Advisory 16379
    Gaim Away Message Buffer Overflow and Denial of Service
    • Criticality: High
    • Description: A vulnerability and a weakness have been reported in Gaim, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or compromise a user's system.
      1. An error in the handling of away messages can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow by sending a specially crafted away message to a user logged into AIM or ICQ.

        Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.

      2. An error in the handling of file transfers can be exploited to crash the application by attempting to upload a file with a non-UTF8 filename to a user logged into AIM or ICQ.
    • Secunia Advisory: http://secunia.com/advisories/16379/

  • Secunia Advisory 16384
    Red Hat update for gaim
    • Criticality: High
    • Description: Red Hat has issued an update for gaim. This fixes a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
    • Secunia Advisory: http://secunia.com/advisories/16384/

  • Secunia Advisory 16386
    WordPress "cache_lastpostdate" PHP Code Insertion
    • Criticality: High
    • Description: kartoffelguru has discovered a vulnerability in WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

      Input passed to the "cache_lastpostdate" parameter via cookies is not properly sanitised before being used. This can be exploited to inject arbitrary PHP script code.

    • Secunia Advisory: http://secunia.com/advisories/16386/

  • Secunia Advisory 16387
    Red Hat update for gaim
    • Criticality: High
    • Description: Red Hat has issued an update for gaim. This fixes a vulnerability and two weaknesses, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or compromise a user's system.
    • Secunia Advisory: http://secunia.com/advisories/16387/
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