- Vulnerabilities 86,726
Pidgin Multiple Denial Of Service Vulnerabilities (Windows)
Published: 2009-09-15 07:32:43
CVE Author: NIST National Vulnerability Database
CVSS Base Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Impact:
Attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code, corrupt memory
and cause the application to crash.
Affected Versions:
Pidgin version prior to 2.6.2 on Windows.
Recommendations:
Upgrade to Pidgin version 2.6.2.
Summary:
This host has Pidgin installed and is prone to multiple Denial of
Service vulnerabilities.
Vulnerabilities Insight:
- An error in libpurple/protocols/irc/msgs.c in the IRC protocol plugin in
libpurple can trigger a NULL-pointer dereference when processing TOPIC
messages which lack a topic string.
- An error in the 'msn_slp_sip_recv' function in libpurple/protocols/msn/slp.c
in the MSN protocol can trigger a NULL-pointer dereference via an SLP invite
message missing expected fields.
- An error in the 'msn_slp_process_msg' function in libpurple/protocols/msn/
slpcall.c in the MSN protocol when converting the encoding of a handwritten
message can be exploited by improper utilisation of uninitialised variables.
- An error in the XMPP protocol plugin in libpurple is fails to handle an
error IQ stanza during an attempted fetch of a custom smiley is processed
via XHTML-IM content with cid: images.
Detection Type:
Windows Registry
Solution Type:
Vendor Patch
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-2703
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-3083
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-3084
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-3085
https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36277
http://secunia.com/advisories/36601
http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/10159
http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=37
http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=38
http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=39
http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=40
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