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Pidgin Multiple Vulnerabilities Jan 2017 (MAC OS X)

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

General

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.5

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

7 years ago

Modified

Modified

5 years ago

Summary

This host is installed with Pidgin and is prone to multiple vulnerabilities.

Insight

Insight

Multiple errors exists due to, - The X.509 certificates may be improperly imported when using GnuTLS. - An improper validation in the field and attribute counts. - An improper validation of the incoming message format. - An improper validation of the received values. - An error in chunk decoding. - Not checking the field count before accessing the fields. - The multiple issues in the MXit protocol support. - An error in g_vsnprintf(). - An improper validation of the data length in the MXit protocol support. - An improper usage of data types in the MXit protocol support. - Not checking the length of the font tag. Refer the reference link for more information.

Affected Software

Affected Software

Pidgin before version 2.11.0 on MAC OS X.

Detection Method

Detection Method

Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.

Solution

Solution

Upgrade to Pidgin version 2.11.0 or later.