Pidgin < 2.10.10 Multiple Vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 78689

Synopsis

An instant messaging client installed on the remote Windows host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Description

The version of Pidgin installed on the remote host is a version prior to 2.10.10. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities :

- An error exists in the included libpurple library related the SSL Basic Constraints extension and Certificate Authority (CA) verification that allows intermediate certificates to be trusted as a CA.
(CVE-2014-3694)

- An error exists in the included libpurple library related to emoticon handling that allows an attacker to crash the application. (CVE-2014-3695)

- An error exists in the included libpurple library related to 'Groupwise' message handling and UI memory management that allows an attacker to crash the application. (CVE-2014-3696)

- An error exists related to handling 'untar' operations on 'smiley themes' that allows arbitrary file overwrites. This issue only affects installs on Microsoft Windows. (CVE-2014-3697)

- An error exists in the included libpurple library related to handling XMPP messages that allows an attacker to obtain arbitrary memory contents.
(CVE-2014-3698)

Solution

Upgrade to Pidgin 2.10.10 or later.

See Also

https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog#version2.10.1010222014

http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=86

http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=87

http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=88

http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=89

http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=90

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 78689

File Name: pidgin_2_10_10.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 10/27/2014

Updated: 11/25/2019

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-3697

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:pidgin:pidgin, cpe:/a:pidgin:libpurple

Required KB Items: SMB/Registry/Enumerated, installed_sw/Pidgin

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/22/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/22/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3694, CVE-2014-3695, CVE-2014-3696, CVE-2014-3697, CVE-2014-3698

BID: 70701, 70702, 70703, 70704, 70705