Fedora 11 : pidgin-2.6.3-2.fc11 (2009-10662)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 42193

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes :

- Bug #529357 - CVE-2009-3615 Pidgin: Invalid pointer dereference (crash) after receiving contacts from SIM IM client

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=529357

http://www.nessus.org/u?4829d332

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 42193

File Name: fedora_2009-10662.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/22/2009

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:11

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: 10/21/2009

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-2694, CVE-2009-3615

BID: 36071, 36277

CWE: 399

FEDORA: 2009-10662