The remote Solaris system is missing necessary patches to address security updates :

  - proxy.c in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.4 does not     properly handle canceled SOCKS5 connection attempts,     which allows user-assisted remote authenticated users to     cause a denial of service (application crash) via a     sequence of XMPP file-transfer requests. (CVE-2012-2214)

  - msg.c in the MSN protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin     before 2.10.4 does not properly handle crafted     characters, which allows remote servers to cause a     denial of service (application crash) by placing these     characters in a text/ plain message. (CVE-2012-2318)

Fix for CVE-2012-2214 and CVE-2012-2318.

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.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2012:1102 advisory.

  - pidgin: Client abort in the MSN protocol plug-in by attempt to display certain, not UTF-8 encoded text     (CVE-2012-1178)

  - pidgin: Improper validation of incoming plaintext messages in MSN protocol plug-in (CVE-2012-2318)

  - pidgin: Stack-based buffer overwrite in MXit protocol libPurple plug-in (CVE-2012-3374)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2012-1102 advisory.

    - Add patch for CVE-2011-2485 (RH bug #837561).
    - Add patch for CVE-2012-1178 (RH bug #837560).
    - Add patch for CVE-2012-2318 (RH bug #837560).
    - Add patch for CVE-2012-3374 (RH bug #837560).
    - Add patch for CVE-2011-4602 (RH bug #766453).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Updated pidgin packages that fix three security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

Pidgin is an instant messaging program which can log in to multiple accounts on multiple instant messaging networks simultaneously.

A flaw was found in the way the Pidgin MSN protocol plug-in processed text that was not encoded in UTF-8. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash Pidgin by sending a specially crafted MSN message.
(CVE-2012-1178)

An input validation flaw was found in the way the Pidgin MSN protocol plug-in handled MSN notification messages. A malicious server or a remote attacker could use this flaw to crash Pidgin by sending a specially crafted MSN notification message. (CVE-2012-2318)

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the Pidgin MXit protocol plug-in.
A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash Pidgin by sending a MXit message containing specially crafted emoticon tags.
(CVE-2012-3374)

Red Hat would like to thank the Pidgin project for reporting the CVE-2012-3374 issue. Upstream acknowledges Ulf Harnhammar as the original reporter of CVE-2012-3374.

All Pidgin users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues. Pidgin must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Multiple vulnerabilities has been discovered and corrected in pidgin :

A series of specially crafted file transfer requests can cause clients to reference invalid memory. The user must have accepted one of the file transfer requests (CVE-2012-2214).

Incoming messages with certain characters or character encodings can cause clients to crash (CVE-2012-2318).

This update provides pidgin 2.10.4, which is not vulnerable to these issues.

Changes in pidgin :

  - bnc#761155, CVE-2012-2318, remote crash via specially     crafted MSN notification message

Various remote triggerable crashes in pidgin have been fixed :

  - In some situations the MSN server sends text that isn't     UTF-8 encoded, and Pidgin fails to verify the text's     encoding. In some cases this can lead to a crash when     attempting to display the text (). (CVE-2012-1178)

  - Incoming messages with certain characters or character     encodings can cause clients to crash. (CVE-2012-1178 /     CVE-2012-2318)

  - A series of specially crafted file transfer requests can     cause clients to reference invalid memory. The user must     have accepted one of the file transfer requests.
    (CVE-2012-2214)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
80738	Oracle Solaris Third-Party Patch Update : pidgin (multiple_vulnerabilities_in_pidgin)	Nessus	Solaris Local Security Checks	1/19/2015	1/14/2021	medium
59435	Fedora 16 : pidgin-2.10.4-1.fc16 (2012-8686)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	6/11/2012	1/11/2021	medium
60076	RHEL 5 / 6 : pidgin (RHSA-2012:1102)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	7/20/2012	4/27/2024	high
68584	Oracle Linux 6 : pidgin (ELSA-2012-1102)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	7/12/2013	10/22/2024	high
60067	CentOS 5 / 6 : pidgin (CESA-2012:1102)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	7/20/2012	1/4/2021	high
61954	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : pidgin (MDVSA-2012:082)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	9/6/2012	1/6/2021	medium
59353	Fedora 17 : pidgin-2.10.4-1.fc17 (2012-8687)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	6/4/2012	1/11/2021	medium
74679	openSUSE Security Update : pidgin (openSUSE-SU-2012:0866-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	6/13/2014	1/19/2021	medium
64128	SuSE 11.1 Security Update : finch, libpurple and pidgin (SAT Patch Number 6294)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	1/25/2013	1/19/2021	medium
64129	SuSE 11.1 Security Update : finch, libpurple and pidgin (SAT Patch Number 6294)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	1/25/2013	1/19/2021	medium

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