6.8 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.02 Low
EPSS
Percentile
88.8%
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2013:0646
Pidgin is an instant messaging program which can log in to multiple
accounts on multiple instant messaging networks simultaneously.
A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the Pidgin MXit protocol
plug-in. A malicious server or a remote attacker could use this flaw to
crash Pidgin by sending a specially-crafted HTTP request. (CVE-2013-0272)
A buffer overflow flaw was found in the Pidgin Sametime protocol plug-in.
A malicious server or a remote attacker could use this flaw to crash Pidgin
by sending a specially-crafted username. (CVE-2013-0273)
A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way Pidgin processed certain UPnP
responses. A remote attacker could send a specially-crafted UPnP response
that, when processed, would crash Pidgin. (CVE-2013-0274)
Red Hat would like to thank the Pidgin project for reporting the above
issues. Upstream acknowledges Daniel Atallah as the original reporter of
CVE-2013-0272.
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.
Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2013-March/081809.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2013-March/081810.html
Affected packages:
finch
finch-devel
libpurple
libpurple-devel
libpurple-perl
libpurple-tcl
pidgin
pidgin-devel
pidgin-docs
pidgin-perl
Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:0646
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
CentOS | 5 | i386 | finch | <Β 2.6.6-17.el5_9.1 | finch-2.6.6-17.el5_9.1.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 5 | i386 | finch-devel | <Β 2.6.6-17.el5_9.1 | finch-devel-2.6.6-17.el5_9.1.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 5 | i386 | libpurple | <Β 2.6.6-17.el5_9.1 | libpurple-2.6.6-17.el5_9.1.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 5 | i386 | libpurple-devel | <Β 2.6.6-17.el5_9.1 | libpurple-devel-2.6.6-17.el5_9.1.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 5 | i386 | libpurple-perl | <Β 2.6.6-17.el5_9.1 | libpurple-perl-2.6.6-17.el5_9.1.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 5 | i386 | libpurple-tcl | <Β 2.6.6-17.el5_9.1 | libpurple-tcl-2.6.6-17.el5_9.1.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 5 | i386 | pidgin | <Β 2.6.6-17.el5_9.1 | pidgin-2.6.6-17.el5_9.1.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 5 | i386 | pidgin-devel | <Β 2.6.6-17.el5_9.1 | pidgin-devel-2.6.6-17.el5_9.1.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 5 | i386 | pidgin-perl | <Β 2.6.6-17.el5_9.1 | pidgin-perl-2.6.6-17.el5_9.1.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 5 | i386 | finch | <Β 2.6.6-17.el5_9.1 | finch-2.6.6-17.el5_9.1.i386.rpm |