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CentOS 4 / 5 : pidgin (CESA-2011:1371)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 56514
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Synopsis
The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.Description
Updated pidgin packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5.The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.
Pidgin is an instant messaging program which can log in to multiple accounts on multiple instant messaging networks simultaneously.
An input sanitization flaw was found in the way the Pidgin SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) protocol plug-in escaped certain UTF-8 characters. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash Pidgin via a specially crafted SILC message. (CVE-2011-3594)
Multiple NULL pointer dereference flaws were found in the way the Pidgin Yahoo! Messenger Protocol plug-in handled malformed YMSG packets. A remote attacker could use these flaws to crash Pidgin via a specially crafted notification message. (CVE-2011-1091)
Red Hat would like to thank the Pidgin project for reporting CVE-2011-1091. Upstream acknowledges Marius Wachtler as the original reporter of CVE-2011-1091.
All Pidgin users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues. Pidgin must be restarted for this update to take effect.
Solution
Update the affected pidgin packages.See Also
http://www.nessus.org/u?5411907d
http://www.nessus.org/u?e9397a80
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 56514
File Name: centos_RHSA-2011-1371.nasl
Version: 1.15
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: CentOS Local Security Checks
Published: 10/17/2011
Updated: 1/4/2021
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 4.4
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.3
Temporal Score: 3.2
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:finch, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:pidgin-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libpurple-perl, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:pidgin, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libpurple-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libpurple, cpe:/o:centos:centos:4, cpe:/o:centos:centos:5, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:pidgin-perl, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:finch-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libpurple-tcl
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/CentOS/release, Host/CentOS/rpm-list
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 11/9/2011
Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/14/2011
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2011-1091, CVE-2011-3594
RHSA: 2011:1371