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HistoryFeb 22, 2014 - 11:36 a.m.

[BSA-092] Security Update for pidgin

2014-02-2211:36:11
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10 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

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

0.04 Low

EPSS

Percentile

91.1%

intrigeri uploaded new packages for pidgin which fixed the
following security problems:

CVE-2013-6477
Jaime Breva Ribes discovered that a remote XMPP user can trigger a crash by
sending a message with a timestamp in the distant future.

CVE-2013-6478
Pidgin could be crashed through overly wide tooltip windows.

CVE-2013-6479
Jacob Appelbaum discovered that a malicious server or a "man in the middle"
could send a malformed HTTP header resulting in denial of service.

CVE-2013-6481
Daniel Atallah discovered that Pidgin could be crashed through malformed
Yahoo! P2P messages.

CVE-2013-6482
Fabian Yamaguchi and Christian Wressnegger discovered that Pidgin could be
crashed through malformed MSN messages.

CVE-2013-6483
Fabian Yamaguchi and Christian Wressnegger discovered that Pidgin could be
crashed through malformed XMPP messages.

CVE-2013-6484
It was discovered that incorrect error handling when reading the response from
a STUN server could result in a crash.

CVE-2013-6485
Matt Jones discovered a buffer overflow in the parsing of malformed
HTTP responses.

CVE-2013-6487
Yves Younan and Ryan Pentney discovered a buffer overflow when parsing
Gadu-Gadu messages.

CVE-2013-6489
Yves Younan and Pawel Janic discovered an integer overflow when parsing
MXit emoticons.

CVE-2013-6490
Yves Younan discovered a buffer overflow when parsing SIMPLE headers.

CVE-2014-0020
Daniel Atallah discovered that Pidgin could be crashed via malformed
IRC arguments.

For the squeeze-backports distribution the problems have been fixed in version
2.10.9-1~bpo60+1.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), no direct backport is provided.
One should use the fixed package from squeeze-backports instead.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version
2.10.9-1~deb7u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version
2.10.9-1.

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Debian7allpidgin< 2.10.9-1~deb7u1pidgin_2.10.9-1~deb7u1_all.deb

10 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

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

0.04 Low

EPSS

Percentile

91.1%