date: 2005-08-11T00:00:00.000Z
summary: Gadu-Gadu memory alignment bug
discoveredBy: Marcin Owsiany and Wojtek Kaniewski
There was a memory alignment bug in the library Gaim uses to access the
Gadu-Gadu network. This bug can not be exploited on x86 architectures. This bug
was recently fixed in the libgadu library, but also needed to be fixed in Gaim
because Gaim includes a copy of the libgadu library.
The vulnerable section of code was modified to work correctly on all