FreeBSD : pidgin -- multiple remote denial of service vulnerabilities (a2c4d3d5-4c7b-11df-83fb-0015587e2cc1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 45585

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Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

Three denial of service vulnerabilities where found in pidgin and allow remote attackers to crash the application. The developers summarized these problems as follows :

Pidgin can become unresponsive when displaying large numbers of smileys

Certain nicknames in group chat rooms can trigger a crash in Finch

Failure to validate all fields of an incoming message can trigger a crash

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=43

http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=44

http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=45

http://www.nessus.org/u?7c885a8c

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 45585

File Name: freebsd_pkg_a2c4d3d54c7b11df83fb0015587e2cc1.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Published: 4/21/2010

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:libpurple, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:pidgin, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/20/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/18/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-0277, CVE-2010-0420, CVE-2010-0423

BID: 38294

CWE: 20, 399