Fedora 10 : pidgin-2.6.0-1.fc10 (2009-8791)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 40675

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

pidgin upgrade to 2.6.0 for the CVE-2009-2694, insufficient input validation in msn_slplink_process_msg() and numerous other bug fixes.
Fedora 10 does not support voice and video with pidgin-2.6.0. Upgrade to Fedora 11 for this capability.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected pidgin package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?275ad166

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 40675

File Name: fedora_2009-8791.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/24/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pidgin, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:10

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/20/2009

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-2694

BID: 36071

CWE: 399

FEDORA: 2009-8791