Re: [Gaim-devel] "DoS Vulnerabillity in Gaim"

[Peter L. <gai...@si...>]

Mark Doliner wrote:
> We should make sure this gets fixed (if it isn't already):
>
> http://digg.com/linux_unix/Girlfriend_Discovers_a_DoS_Vulnerability_in_Gaim
>
> -Mark

I was under the impression that spamming smilies has long been known to 
be a DoS vector, just one of the things never 'mentioned' in public. 
Well, I've known about this for several years, anyways, and did mention 
it before. I think the consensus was 'smileys suck, anyway'

Scratching around my memory, so I'm probably wrong, I seem to recall it 
being said once something along the lines that each smiley creates a new 
anim within the gtk window, instead of re-using an previously created 
one... or something along those lines. As I say, my memory is hazy on 
this as it was several years ago I discussed it. This was also with 
regards to Yahoo smilies, and not MSN - so may not be related at all. 
But thought the info may be of some help.

Pete.


 ;)