Follow @Openwall on Twitter for new release announcements and other news
[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-ID: <20081029102236.0f77cfcf@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:22:36 +0100
From: Tomas Hoger <thoger@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request - libgadu

On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:23:56 +0100 Tomas Hoger <thoger@...hat.com>
wrote:

> New upstream libgadu version 1.8.2 is marked as security update and
> seems to fix a buffer over-read flaw:
> 
> http://toxygen.net/libgadu/releases/1.8.2.html
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468830
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libgadu-1.8.2-1.fc9

Just for the future reference:

CVE-2008-4776:
libgadu before 1.8.2 allows remote servers to cause a denial of
service (crash) via a contact description with a large length, which
triggers a buffer over-read.

-- 
Tomas Hoger / Red Hat Security Response Team

Powered by blists - more mailing lists

Please check out the Open Source Software Security Wiki, which is counterpart to this mailing list.

Confused about mailing lists and their use? Read about mailing lists on Wikipedia and check out these guidelines on proper formatting of your messages.