Hello, there was a problem with the GAIM patch that was linked from my advisory and is most probably part of the already released packages.
The old version of the patch lacked a variable increment, that eventually creates a very long loop followed by a crash on malformed yahoo packets. This problem was reported by: Joseph Martin Cheers, Stefan Esser -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stefan Esser [EMAIL PROTECTED] e-matters Security http://security.e-matters.de/ GPG-Key gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key 0xCF6CAE69 Key fingerprint B418 B290 ACC0 C8E5 8292 8B72 D6B0 7704 CF6C AE69 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Did I help you? Consider a gift: http://wishlist.suspekt.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
