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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 10.10 / 11.04 : pidgin vulnerabilities (USN-1273-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 56915

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

Marius Wachtler discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled malformed YMSG messages in the Yahoo! protocol handler. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted message and cause Pidgin to crash, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and 10.10. (CVE-2011-1091)

Marius Wachtler discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled HTTP 100 responses in the MSN protocol handler. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted message and cause Pidgin to crash, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-3184)

Diego Bauche Madero discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled UTF-8 sequences in the SILC protocol handler. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted message and cause Pidgin to crash, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-3594).

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Solution

Update the affected pidgin package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1273-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 56915

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1273-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/22/2011

Updated: 9/19/2019

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, 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:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pidgin, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.04

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/21/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/14/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1091, CVE-2011-3184, CVE-2011-3594

BID: 46837, 49268, 49912

USN: 1273-1