GLSA-200901-13 : Pidgin: Multiple vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 35432

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200901-13 (Pidgin: Multiple vulnerabilities)

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Pidgin and the libpurple library:
A participant to the TippingPoint ZDI reported multiple integer overflows in the msn_slplink_process_msg() function in the MSN protocol implementation (CVE-2008-2927).
Juan Pablo Lopez Yacubian is credited for reporting a use-after-free flaw in msn_slplink_process_msg() in the MSN protocol implementation (CVE-2008-2955).
The included UPnP server does not limit the size of data to be downloaded for UPnP service discovery, according to a report by Andrew Hunt and Christian Grothoff (CVE-2008-2957).
Josh Triplett discovered that the NSS plugin for libpurple does not properly verify SSL certificates (CVE-2008-3532).
Impact :

A remote attacker could send specially crafted messages or files using the MSN protocol which could result in the execution of arbitrary code or crash Pidgin. NOTE: Successful exploitation might require the victim's interaction. Furthermore, an attacker could conduct man-in-the-middle attacks to obtain sensitive information using bad certificates and cause memory and disk resources to exhaust.
Workaround :

There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All Pidgin users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=net-im/pidgin-2.5.1'

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200901-13

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 35432

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200901-13.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Published: 1/21/2009

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:pidgin, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Patch Publication Date: 1/20/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-2927, CVE-2008-2955, CVE-2008-2957, CVE-2008-3532

CWE: 189, 20, 310

GLSA: 200901-13