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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1870-1 (pidgin)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to pidgin announced via advisory DSA 1870-1.
Insight
Insight
Federico Muttis discovered that libpurple, the shared library that adds support for various instant messaging networks to the pidgin IM client, is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow. This issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-2927 and CVE-2009-1376. An attacker can exploit this by sending two consecutive SLP packets to a victim via MSN. The first packet is used to create an SLP message object with an offset of zero, the second packet then contains a crafted offset which hits the vulnerable code originally fixed in CVE-2008-2927 and CVE-2009-1376 and allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code. Note: Users with the Allow only the users below setting are not vulnerable to this attack. If you can't install the below updates you may want to set this via Tools->Privacy. For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.3-4lenny3. For the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem will be fixed soon. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.5.9-1. We recommend that you upgrade your pidgin packages.
Solution
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201870-1
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