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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 : pidgin vulnerability (USN-796-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 39619

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

Yuriy Kaminskiy discovered that Pidgin did not properly handle certain messages in the ICQ protocol handler. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted message and cause Pidgin to crash.

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Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/796-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 39619

File Name: ubuntu_USN-796-1.nasl

Version: 1.20

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/7/2009

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:finch, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:finch-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gaim, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpurple-bin, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpurple-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpurple0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pidgin, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pidgin-data, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pidgin-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pidgin-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.04

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/6/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-1889

BID: 35530

CWE: 399

USN: 796-1