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openSUSE Security Update : pidgin (openSUSE-2012-29)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 74639

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

pidgin was updated to version 2.10.1

 + AIM and ICQ :

 - Fix remotely-triggerable crashes by validating strings in a few messages related to buddy list management (bnc#736147, CVE-2011-4601).

 + Bonjour :

 - IPv6 fixes

 + Gadu-Gadu :

 - Fix problems linking against GnuTLS.

 + IRC :

 - Fix a memory leak when admitting UTF-8 text with a non-UTF-8 primary encoding.

 + Jabber :

 - Fix crashes and memory leaks when receiving malformed voice and video requests.

 + Sametime :

 - Separate 'username' and 'server' when adding new Sametime accounts.

 - Fix compilation in Visual C++.

 + SILC :

 - Fix CVE-2011-3594, by UTF-8 validating incoming messages before passing them to glib or libpurple.

 + Yahoo! :

 - Fetch buddy icons in some cases where we previously weren't.

Solution

Update the affected pidgin packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=722199

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=736147

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 74639

File Name: openSUSE-2012-29.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/13/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:finch, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:finch-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:finch-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpurple, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpurple-branding-opensuse, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpurple-branding-upstream, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpurple-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpurple-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpurple-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpurple-meanwhile, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpurple-meanwhile-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpurple-tcl, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpurple-tcl-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pidgin, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pidgin-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pidgin-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pidgin-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pidgin-evolution, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pidgin-evolution-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:12.1

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/11/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-3594, CVE-2011-4601