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openSUSE Security Update : pidgin (openSUSE-2017-457)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 99295

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for pidgin to version 2.12.0 fixes the following issues :

This security issue was fixed :

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

These non-security issues were fixed :

 + libpurple :

 - Fix the use of uninitialised memory if running non-debug-enabled versions of glib.

 - Update AIM dev and dist ID's to new ones that were assigned by AOL.

 - TLS certificate verification now uses SHA-256 checksums.

 - Fix the SASL external auth for Freenode (boo#1009974).

 - Remove the MSN protocol plugin. It has been unusable and dormant for some time.

 - Remove the Mxit protocol plugin. The service was closed at the end ofSeptember 2016.

 - Remove the MySpaceIM protocol plugin. The service has been defunct for a long time (pidgin.im#15356).

 - Remove the Yahoo! protocol plugin. Yahoo has completely reimplemented their protocol, so this version is no longer operable as of August 5th, 2016.

 - Remove the Facebook (XMPP) account option. According to https://developers.facebook.com/docs/chat the XMPP Chat API service ended April 30th, 2015.

 - Fix gnutls certificate validation errors that mainly affected Google.

 + General :

 - Replace instances of d.pidgin.im with developer.pidgin.im and update the urls to use https (pidgin.im#17036).

 + IRC :

 - Fix an issue of messages being silently cut off at 500 characters. Large messages are now split into parts and sent one by one (pidgin.im#4753).

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://developers.facebook.com/docs/chat

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 99295

File Name: openSUSE-2017-457.nasl

Version: 3.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/12/2017

Updated: 12/26/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-2640

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpurple-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpurple-branding-opensuse, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pidgin-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpurple-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpurple-plugin-sametime-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpurple-plugin-sametime, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:finch-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpurple-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:finch-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:finch, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpurple-branding-upstream, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pidgin-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpurple-tcl-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpurple, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pidgin-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pidgin, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpurple-tcl

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/11/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-2640

IAVB: 2017-B-0029