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Amazon Linux 2 : pidgin (ALAS-2023-2115)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 178558

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of pidgin installed on the remote host is prior to 2.10.11-9. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2023-2115 advisory.

 An issue was discovered in Pidgin before 2.14.9. A remote attacker who can spoof DNS responses can redirect a client connection to a malicious server. The client will perform TLS certificate verification of the malicious domain name instead of the original XMPP service domain, allowing the attacker to take over control over the XMPP connection and to obtain user credentials and all communication content. This is similar to CVE-2022-24968. (CVE-2022-26491)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Run 'yum update pidgin' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2023-2115.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-26491.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 178558

File Name: al2_ALAS-2023-2115.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/20/2023

Updated: 12/11/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-26491

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libpurple-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:pidgin-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:pidgin, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:finch, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:pidgin-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libpurple, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:finch-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libpurple-tcl, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libpurple-perl, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:pidgin-perl

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/AmazonLinux/release, Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/5/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/2/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-26491