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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1870-1 (pidgin)

🗓️ 02 Sep 2009 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (c) 2009 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.comType 
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This is a Debian Security Advisory DSA 1870-1 for pidgin regarding a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in libpurple

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# OpenVAS Vulnerability Test
# $Id: deb_1870_1.nasl 6615 2017-07-07 12:09:52Z cfischer $
# Description: Auto-generated from advisory DSA 1870-1 (pidgin)
#
# Authors:
# Thomas Reinke <[email protected]>
#
# Copyright:
# Copyright (c) 2009 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com
# Text descriptions are largely excerpted from the referenced
# advisory, and are Copyright (c) the respective author(s)
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2,
# or at your option, GNU General Public License version 3,
# as published by the Free Software Foundation
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
#

include("revisions-lib.inc");
tag_insight = "Federico Muttis discovered that libpurple, the shared library that adds
support for various instant messaging networks to the pidgin IM client, is
vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow.  This issue exists because of
an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-2927 and CVE-2009-1376.  An attacker can
exploit this by sending two consecutive SLP packets to a victim via MSN.

The first packet is used to create an SLP message object with an offset of
zero, the second packet then contains a crafted offset which hits the
vulnerable code originally fixed in CVE-2008-2927 and CVE-2009-1376 and
allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code.

Note: Users with the Allow only the users below setting are not vulnerable
to this attack. If you can't install the below updates you may want to
set this via Tools->Privacy.


For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.4.3-4lenny3.

For the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem will be fixed soon.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.5.9-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your pidgin packages.";
tag_summary = "The remote host is missing an update to pidgin
announced via advisory DSA 1870-1.";

tag_solution = "https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201870-1";


if(description)
{
 script_id(64753);
 script_version("$Revision: 6615 $");
 script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"$Date: 2017-07-07 14:09:52 +0200 (Fri, 07 Jul 2017) $");
 script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2009-09-02 04:58:39 +0200 (Wed, 02 Sep 2009)");
 script_cve_id("CVE-2009-2694", "CVE-2008-2927", "CVE-2009-1376");
 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_name("Debian Security Advisory DSA 1870-1 (pidgin)");



 script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);

 script_copyright("Copyright (c) 2009 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com");
 script_family("Debian Local Security Checks");
 script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
 script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/debian_linux", "ssh/login/packages");
 script_tag(name : "solution" , value : tag_solution);
 script_tag(name : "insight" , value : tag_insight);
 script_tag(name : "summary" , value : tag_summary);
 script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
 script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
 exit(0);
}

#
# The script code starts here
#

include("pkg-lib-deb.inc");

res = "";
report = "";
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libpurple-bin", ver:"2.4.3-4lenny3", rls:"DEB5.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"pidgin-data", ver:"2.4.3-4lenny3", rls:"DEB5.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libpurple-dev", ver:"2.4.3-4lenny3", rls:"DEB5.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"pidgin-dev", ver:"2.4.3-4lenny3", rls:"DEB5.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"finch-dev", ver:"2.4.3-4lenny3", rls:"DEB5.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"finch", ver:"2.4.3-4lenny3", rls:"DEB5.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"pidgin", ver:"2.4.3-4lenny3", rls:"DEB5.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"pidgin-dbg", ver:"2.4.3-4lenny3", rls:"DEB5.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libpurple0", ver:"2.4.3-4lenny3", rls:"DEB5.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}

if (report != "") {
    security_message(data:report);
} else if (__pkg_match) {
    exit(99); # Not vulnerable.
}

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