Re: [gentoo-dev] gaim-0.75-r5 stable push

[Don Seiler <rizzo@gentoo.org>]

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This is out of my already limited area of knowledge.

I'll need someone with some hardened expertise to tell me if this is
indeed an attack or exploit and something that we need to notify
upstream.

Don.

On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 03:25:52PM -0500, Kumba wrote:
> 
> I've had reports of it locking up an Indy when logging into Yahoo.  SGI 
> mips machines are big-endian, btw.
> 
> I also found this bug, and I wonder if the two are connected:
> 
> Bugzilla Bug 37919
> net-im/gaim-0.75-r1 reports stack smashing attack when connecting to Yahoo
> 
> Maybe what we are seeing is a stack-smash attack taking out big-endian 
> machines? (well, most anyways).
> 
> 
> --Kumba
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