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SuSE 11.3 Security Update : finch (SAT Patch Number 9213)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 74173

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Synopsis

The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The pidgin Instant Messenger has been updated to fix various security issues :

 - Remotely triggerable crash in IRC argument parsing.
 (CVE-2014-0020)

 - Buffer overflow in SIMPLE header parsing.
 (CVE-2013-6490)

 - Buffer overflow in MXit emoticon parsing.
 (CVE-2013-6489)

 - Buffer overflow in Gadu-Gadu HTTP parsing.
 (CVE-2013-6487)

 - Pidgin uses clickable links to untrusted executables.
 (CVE-2013-6486)

 - Buffer overflow parsing chunked HTTP responses.
 (CVE-2013-6485)

 - Crash reading response from STUN server. (CVE-2013-6484)

 - XMPP doesn't verify 'from' on some iq replies.
 (CVE-2013-6483)

 - NULL pointer dereference parsing SOAP data in MSN.
 (CVE-2013-6482)

 - NULL pointer dereference parsing OIM data in MSN.
 (CVE-2013-6482)

 - NULL pointer dereference parsing headers in MSN.
 (CVE-2013-6482)

 - Remote crash reading Yahoo! P2P message. (CVE-2013-6481)

 - Remote crash parsing HTTP responses. (CVE-2013-6479)

 - Crash when hovering pointer over a long URL.
 (CVE-2013-6478)

 - Crash handling bad XMPP timestamp. (CVE-2013-6477)

 - Yahoo! remote crash from incorrect character encoding.
 (CVE-2012-6152)

Solution

Apply SAT patch number 9213.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=861019

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-6152.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-6477.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-6478.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-6479.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-6481.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-6482.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-6483.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-6484.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-6485.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-6486.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-6487.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-6489.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-6490.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-0020.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 74173

File Name: suse_11_finch-140508.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/24/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:finch, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:libpurple, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:libpurple-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:libpurple-meanwhile, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:libpurple-tcl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:pidgin, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 5/8/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-6152, CVE-2013-6477, CVE-2013-6478, CVE-2013-6479, CVE-2013-6481, CVE-2013-6482, CVE-2013-6483, CVE-2013-6484, CVE-2013-6485, CVE-2013-6486, CVE-2013-6487, CVE-2013-6489, CVE-2013-6490, CVE-2014-0020