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SuSE 11.1 Security Update : finch, libpurple and pidgin (SAT Patch Number 6294)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 64129
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Synopsis
The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.Description
Various remote triggerable crashes in pidgin have been fixed :- In some situations the MSN server sends text that isn't UTF-8 encoded, and Pidgin fails to verify the text's encoding. In some cases this can lead to a crash when attempting to display the text (). (CVE-2012-1178)
- Incoming messages with certain characters or character encodings can cause clients to crash. (CVE-2012-1178 / CVE-2012-2318)
- A series of specially crafted file transfer requests can cause clients to reference invalid memory. The user must have accepted one of the file transfer requests.
(CVE-2012-2214)
Solution
Apply SAT patch number 6294.See Also
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=752275
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=760890
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=761155
http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-1178.html
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 64129
File Name: suse_11_finch-120516.nasl
Version: 1.4
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: SuSE Local Security Checks
Published: 1/25/2013
Updated: 1/19/2021
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
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:libpurple-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:finch, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:libpurple-tcl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:libpurple-meanwhile, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:libpurple, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:pidgin
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list
Patch Publication Date: 5/16/2012