Pidgin MSN SLP Packets Denial Of Service Vulnerability - Windows

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
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# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.900919");
  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:"2009-08-26 14:01:08 +0200 (Wed, 26 Aug 2009)");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"10.0");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2009-2694");
  script_name("Pidgin MSN SLP Packets Denial Of Service Vulnerability - Windows");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://secunia.com/advisories/36384");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36071");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=34");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2303");

  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:"Attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code, corrupt memory
  and cause the application to crash.");
  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Pidgin version prior to 2.5.9 on Windows.");
  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"An error in the 'msn_slplink_process_msg()' function while processing
  malformed MSN SLP packets which can be exploited to overwrite of an
  arbitrary memory location.");
  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade to Pidgin version 2.5.9.");
  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:"2.5.9")){
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:pidginVer, fixed_version:"2.5.9");
  security_message(port: 0, data: report);
}