FreeBSD : libgadu -- multiple vulnerabilities (3b4a6982-0b24-11da-bc08-0001020eed82)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 21414

Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

Wojtek Kaniewski reports :

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in libgadu, a library for handling Gadu-Gadu instant messaging protocol. It is a part of ekg, a Gadu-Gadu client, but is widely used in other clients. Also some of the user contributed scripts were found to behave in an insecure manner.

- integer overflow in libgadu (CVE-2005-1852) that could be triggered by an incomming message and lead to application crash and/or remote code execution

- insecure file creation (CVE-2005-1850) and shell command injection (CVE-2005-1851) in other user contributed scripts (discovered by Marcin Owsiany and Wojtek Kaniewski)

- several signedness errors in libgadu that could be triggered by an incomming network data or an application passing invalid user input to the library

- memory alignment errors in libgadu that could be triggered by an incomming message and lead to bus errors on architectures like SPARC

- endianness errors in libgadu that could cause invalid behaviour of applications on big-endian architectures

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 21414

File Name: freebsd_pkg_3b4a69820b2411dabc080001020eed82.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: local

Family: FreeBSD Local Security Checks

Published: 5/13/2006

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:centericq, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:gaim, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:ja-gaim, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:kdenetwork, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:ko-gaim, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:pl-ekg, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:ru-gaim, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/12/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/21/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-1850, CVE-2005-1851, CVE-2005-1852, CVE-2005-2369, CVE-2005-2370, CVE-2005-2448

BID: 14345

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