Pidgin Oscar Protocol Denial of Service Vulnerability - Windows
🗓️ 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2009 Greenbone AGType
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| Source | Link |
|---|---|
| secunia | www.secunia.com/advisories/37072 |
| developer | www.developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog |
| securityfocus | www.securityfocus.com/bid/36719 |
| xforce | www.xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/53807 |
| pidgin | www.pidgin.im/news/security/ |
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.801030");
script_version("2024-02-15T05:05:39+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-02-15 05:05:39 +0000 (Thu, 15 Feb 2024)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2009-10-23 16:18:41 +0200 (Fri, 23 Oct 2009)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_cve_id("CVE-2009-3615");
script_name("Pidgin Oscar Protocol Denial of Service Vulnerability - Windows");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://secunia.com/advisories/37072");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36719");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/53807");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=41");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2009 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Denial of Service");
script_dependencies("secpod_pidgin_detect_win.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("Pidgin/Win/Ver");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation will allow attacker to cause a Denial of Service.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Pidgin version prior to 2.6.3 on Windows.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"This issue is caused by an error in the Oscar protocol plugin when processing
malformed ICQ or AIM contacts sent by the SIM IM client, which could cause an
invalid memory access leading to a crash.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade to Pidgin version 2.6.3.");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Pidgin is prone to a denial of service (DoS)
vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"registry");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
exit(0);
}
include("version_func.inc");
pidginVer = get_kb_item("Pidgin/Win/Ver");
if(!pidginVer)
exit(0);
if(version_is_less(version:pidginVer, test_version:"2.6.3")){
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:pidginVer, fixed_version:"2.6.3");
security_message(port: 0, data: report);
}
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15 Feb 2024 00:00Current
7.4High risk
Vulners AI Score7.4
CVSS 25
EPSS0.02661