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Oracle Linux 4 : pidgin (ELSA-2011-1820)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 68408
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Synopsis
The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.Description
From Red Hat Security Advisory 2011:1820 :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 AOL Open System for Communication in Realtime (OSCAR) protocol plug-in in Pidgin, used by the AOL ICQ and AIM instant messaging systems, escaped certain UTF-8 characters. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash Pidgin via a specially crafted OSCAR message. (CVE-2011-4601)
An input sanitization flaw was found in the way the Pidgin SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) protocol plug-in escaped certain UTF-8 characters in channel messages. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash Pidgin via a specially crafted SILC message.
(CVE-2011-4603)
Multiple NULL pointer dereference flaws were found in the Jingle extension of the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) protocol plug-in in Pidgin. A remote attacker could use these flaws to crash Pidgin via a specially crafted Jingle multimedia message.
(CVE-2011-4602)
Red Hat would like to thank the Pidgin project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Evgeny Boger as the original reporter of CVE-2011-4601; Diego Bauche Madero from IOActive as the original reporter of CVE-2011-4603; and Thijs Alkemade as the original reporter of CVE-2011-4602.
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
https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/el-errata/2011-December/002504.html
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 68408
File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2011-1820.nasl
Version: 1.9
Type: local
Agent: unix
Published: 7/12/2013
Updated: 1/14/2021
Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 3.6
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5
Temporal Score: 3.7
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:pidgin, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:pidgin-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:finch-devel, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:4, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libpurple-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:pidgin-perl, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:finch, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libpurple-tcl, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libpurple-perl, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:libpurple
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/OracleLinux, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 12/15/2011
Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/16/2011
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2011-4601, CVE-2011-4602, CVE-2011-4603
RHSA: 2011:1820