CentOS 5 / 6 : pidgin (CESA-2012:1102)

high Nessus Plugin ID 60067

Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated pidgin packages that fix three security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

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.

A flaw was found in the way the Pidgin MSN protocol plug-in processed text that was not encoded in UTF-8. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash Pidgin by sending a specially crafted MSN message.
(CVE-2012-1178)

An input validation flaw was found in the way the Pidgin MSN protocol plug-in handled MSN notification messages. A malicious server or a remote attacker could use this flaw to crash Pidgin by sending a specially crafted MSN notification message. (CVE-2012-2318)

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the Pidgin MXit protocol plug-in.
A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash Pidgin by sending a MXit message containing specially crafted emoticon tags.
(CVE-2012-3374)

Red Hat would like to thank the Pidgin project for reporting the CVE-2012-3374 issue. Upstream acknowledges Ulf Harnhammar as the original reporter of CVE-2012-3374.

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?7ae4d08e

http://www.nessus.org/u?b7a5e015

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 60067

File Name: centos_RHSA-2012-1102.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/20/2012

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: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-3374

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:finch, cpe:/o:centos:centos:6, 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:pidgin-docs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libpurple-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libpurple, 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: 7/19/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/15/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-1178, CVE-2012-2318, CVE-2012-3374

BID: 52475, 53400, 54322

RHSA: 2012:1102