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gentooGentoo FoundationGLSA-201405-22
HistoryMay 18, 2014 - 12:00 a.m.

Pidgin: Multiple vulnerabilities

2014-05-1800:00:00
Gentoo Foundation
security.gentoo.org
12

0.04 Low

EPSS

Percentile

92.0%

Background

Pidgin is a GTK Instant Messenger client for a variety of instant messaging protocols.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Pidgin. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the Pidgin process, cause a Denial of Service condition, overwrite files, or spoof traffic.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Pidgin users on HPPA or users of GNOME 3.8 and later on AMD64 or X86 should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-im/pidgin-2.10.9-r1"

All Pidgin users on ALPHA, PPC, PPC64, SPARC, and users of GNOME before 3.8 on AMD64 and X86 should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-im/pidgin-2.10.9"
OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Gentooanyallnet-im/pidgin<Β 2.10.9UNKNOWN