It will probably be hard for you to believe, but my girlfriend discovered a DoS vulnerability in Gaim. No, don’t worry. She is not a computer geek (One in a relationship is certainly enough). The story of my girlfriend’s important discovery goes like this:
I was chatting with her some days ago using Gaim (she uses MS Messenger). At some point, she had sent me the following attack vector:
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As she deeply disliked something I had said to her …
Gaim replaced each “:(” with a sad animated 🙁 emoticon. From a mysterious reason, a few dozens of sad emoticons made Gaim choke. CPU usage was at 100% and the system felt highly unresponsive. It was impossible to use Gaim at all.
Luckily, I was able to kill Gaim from the command-line. I started it again hoping for the best, however, when I opened the chat window again, the attack vector was still there (retrieved from the logs) and Gaim choked yet again. I had to manually remove the few last lines from the log files, so I’ll be able to speak with her again.
To make a long story short, my girlfriend is now happy again.
Note: This episode of Thesamet.com was recorded 10 days ago, when Gaim developers were notified of this.
Clarification: For some reason, some people consider this to be a chauvinistic post. My girlfriend is a very intelligent person, she is not interested in software security. We were both surprised that she unintentionally discovered this. That’s it.
P.S.: The first paragraph of this post was written by her. She said it will help it to “do well on digg”.
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Not entirely equivalent, but I’ve experienced similar issue with a gaim plugin as well: gaim-festival, which turns IM text into speech and speak it out. My colleagues make fun out of it, and send me messages like: “hihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihi…” at first it’s really funny to see the sound deteriorate with the sheer length of message, but that managed to crash my gaim once later. I never turn it on again anymore.
Give me enough unhappy smileys and a point of access and I’ll shut down the web.
: )
I hope you die.
Seriously.
Don’t turn everything into something sexist. Go get hit by a bus, eat a bullet, just do something to leave this world.
You need to get rid of all your revolt and negativity brother. Lighten up and don’t be so constipated, you’ll feel a lot better and the whole world around you will SMILE.
Um… I seem to be missing the part where the “DoS” happens… to me, it just sounds like Gaim chokes up with a lot of smilies in one message. Very definitely *not* a DoS attack.
it will help it to “do well on diggâ€. it doesn’t matter who wrote the crap. The crap is crap and *you* are rspeonsible as its publisher. If your girlfriend wrote the crap, tell her to take a few women’s studies classes (to learn about internalized oppression), dump you (bc you agreed to publish crap about her), and get her own blog (to get a voice of her own). What’s done is done. Hopefully, next time you’ll be careful about what your fingers tell you to write. > also, as reply to when did he say he was going to report the bug? it is kind to report vulnerabilities to devels before making them public. The blog owner apparently knows this and says This episode of Thesamet.com was recorded 10 days ago, when Gaim developers were notified of this. But he still needs to give us a *source*, which, in this case, should be a link to the bug report, so we can *follow up* on what’s going on
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