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Fix the date on the 2023 Q3 state of the bird
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3 weeks ago, Gary Kramlich
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Fix the date on the 2023 Q3 state of the bird
Testing Done:
Eyeball tests.
Reviewed at https://reviews.imfreedom.org/r/2791/
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title: independent-20041019-01
date: 2004-10-19T00:00:00.000Z
summary: MSN SLP DOS (malloc error)
discoveredBy: Gaim
fixedInRelease: 1.0.2
type: security
layout: cve
hidden: true
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### Description
Remote crash. Gaim allocates a buffer for the payload of each message received
based on the size field in the header of the message. A malicious peer could
specify an invalid size that exceeds the amount of available memory.
### Mitigation
Replace call to
`g_malloc()`
with call to
`g_try_malloc()`
. If the memory could
not be allocated the function returns instead of causing the application to
crash.