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openSUSE Security Update : pidgin (openSUSE-2017-410)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 99151

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for pidgin fixes the following issues :

Feature update :

 - Update to GNOME 3.20.2 (fate#318572).

Security issues fixed :

 - CVE-2017-2640: Fix an out of bounds memory read in purple_markup_unescape_entity. (boo#1028835)

Bugfixes

 - Correctly remove *.so files for plugins (fixes devel-file-in-non-devel-package).

 - Remove generation of a plugin list to package, simply add it all in %files with exclusions.

 - Fix SASL EXTERNAL fingerprint authentication (boo#1009974).

Solution

Update the affected pidgin packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1009974

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1028835

https://features.opensuse.org/

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 99151

File Name: openSUSE-2017-410.nasl

Version: 3.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/3/2017

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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-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, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.2

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/30/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-2640

IAVB: 2017-B-0029