RHEL 4 / 5 : pidgin (RHSA-2011:1371)

high Nessus Plugin ID 56505

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for pidgin.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 / 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2011:1371 advisory.

- Pidgin: Multiple NULL pointer dereference flaws in Yahoo protocol plug-in (CVE-2011-1091)

- libpurple: invalid UTF-8 string handling in SILC messages (CVE-2011-3594)

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

Solution

Update the RHEL pidgin package based on the guidance in RHSA-2011:1371.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 56505

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2011-1371.nasl

Version: 1.21

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 10/14/2011

Updated: 4/21/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-3594

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:finch, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libpurple-tcl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pidgin, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libpurple-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pidgin-perl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:finch-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pidgin-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libpurple, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libpurple-perl

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/13/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/14/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1091, CVE-2011-3594

BID: 46837, 49912

CWE: 476

RHSA: 2011:1371

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