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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2859-1 (pidgin - several vulnerabilities)

🗓️ 10 Feb 2014 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (c) 2014 Greenbone Networks GmbH http://greenbone.netType 
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Pidgin multiple vulnerabilities discovered by various researchers including remote crash, denial of service, and buffer overflow in parsing of different protocol messages

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# OpenVAS Vulnerability Test
# $Id: deb_2859.nasl 6995 2017-08-23 11:52:03Z teissa $
# Auto-generated from advisory DSA 2859-1 using nvtgen 1.0
# Script version: 1.2
#
# Author:
# Greenbone Networks
#
# Copyright:
# Copyright (c) 2014 Greenbone Networks GmbH http://greenbone.net
# 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
# as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
# of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
#
# 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.
#

tag_affected  = "pidgin on Debian Linux";
tag_insight   = "Pidgin is a graphical, modular instant messaging client capable of using
multiple networks at once. Currently supported are:
AIM/ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN, IRC, Jabber/XMPP/Google Talk, Napster, Zephyr, Gadu-Gadu,
Bonjour, Groupwise, Sametime, SIMPLE, MySpaceIM, and MXit.";
tag_solution  = "For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), no direct backport is provided.
A fixed package will be provided through backports.debian.org shortly.

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.

We recommend that you upgrade your pidgin packages.";
tag_summary   = "Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Pidgin, a multi-protocol
instant messaging client:

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-2013-6479Jacob 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.";
tag_vuldetect = "This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.";

if(description)
{
    script_id(702859);
    script_version("$Revision: 6995 $");
    script_cve_id("CVE-2013-6477", "CVE-2013-6478", "CVE-2013-6479", "CVE-2013-6481", "CVE-2013-6482", "CVE-2013-6483", "CVE-2013-6484", "CVE-2013-6485", "CVE-2013-6487", "CVE-2013-6489", "CVE-2013-6490", "CVE-2014-0020");
    script_name("Debian Security Advisory DSA 2859-1 (pidgin - several vulnerabilities)");
    script_tag(name: "last_modification", value:"$Date: 2017-08-23 13:52:03 +0200 (Wed, 23 Aug 2017) $");
    script_tag(name: "creation_date", value:"2014-02-10 00:00:00 +0100 (Mon, 10 Feb 2014)");
    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_xref(name: "URL", value: "http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2859.html");


    script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);

    script_copyright("Copyright (c) 2014 Greenbone Networks GmbH http://greenbone.net");
    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: "affected",  value: tag_affected);
    script_tag(name: "insight",   value: tag_insight);
#    script_tag(name: "impact",    value: tag_impact);
    script_tag(name: "solution",  value: tag_solution);
    script_tag(name: "summary",   value: tag_summary);
    script_tag(name: "vuldetect", value: tag_vuldetect);
    script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
    script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");

    exit(0);
}

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

res = "";
report = "";
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"finch", ver:"2.10.9-1~deb7u1", rls:"DEB7.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"finch-dev", ver:"2.10.9-1~deb7u1", rls:"DEB7.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libpurple-bin", ver:"2.10.9-1~deb7u1", rls:"DEB7.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libpurple-dev", ver:"2.10.9-1~deb7u1", rls:"DEB7.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libpurple0", ver:"2.10.9-1~deb7u1", rls:"DEB7.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"pidgin", ver:"2.10.9-1~deb7u1", rls:"DEB7.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"pidgin-data", ver:"2.10.9-1~deb7u1", rls:"DEB7.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"pidgin-dbg", ver:"2.10.9-1~deb7u1", rls:"DEB7.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"pidgin-dev", ver:"2.10.9-1~deb7u1", rls:"DEB7.0")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"finch", ver:"2.10.9-1~deb7u1", rls:"DEB7.1")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"finch-dev", ver:"2.10.9-1~deb7u1", rls:"DEB7.1")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libpurple-bin", ver:"2.10.9-1~deb7u1", rls:"DEB7.1")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libpurple-dev", ver:"2.10.9-1~deb7u1", rls:"DEB7.1")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libpurple0", ver:"2.10.9-1~deb7u1", rls:"DEB7.1")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"pidgin", ver:"2.10.9-1~deb7u1", rls:"DEB7.1")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"pidgin-data", ver:"2.10.9-1~deb7u1", rls:"DEB7.1")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"pidgin-dbg", ver:"2.10.9-1~deb7u1", rls:"DEB7.1")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"pidgin-dev", ver:"2.10.9-1~deb7u1", rls:"DEB7.1")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"finch", ver:"2.10.9-1~deb7u1", rls:"DEB7.2")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"finch-dev", ver:"2.10.9-1~deb7u1", rls:"DEB7.2")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libpurple-bin", ver:"2.10.9-1~deb7u1", rls:"DEB7.2")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libpurple-dev", ver:"2.10.9-1~deb7u1", rls:"DEB7.2")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libpurple0", ver:"2.10.9-1~deb7u1", rls:"DEB7.2")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"pidgin", ver:"2.10.9-1~deb7u1", rls:"DEB7.2")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"pidgin-data", ver:"2.10.9-1~deb7u1", rls:"DEB7.2")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"pidgin-dbg", ver:"2.10.9-1~deb7u1", rls:"DEB7.2")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"pidgin-dev", ver:"2.10.9-1~deb7u1", rls:"DEB7.2")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"finch", ver:"2.10.9-1~deb7u1", rls:"DEB7.3")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"finch-dev", ver:"2.10.9-1~deb7u1", rls:"DEB7.3")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libpurple-bin", ver:"2.10.9-1~deb7u1", rls:"DEB7.3")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libpurple-dev", ver:"2.10.9-1~deb7u1", rls:"DEB7.3")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"libpurple0", ver:"2.10.9-1~deb7u1", rls:"DEB7.3")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"pidgin", ver:"2.10.9-1~deb7u1", rls:"DEB7.3")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"pidgin-data", ver:"2.10.9-1~deb7u1", rls:"DEB7.3")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"pidgin-dbg", ver:"2.10.9-1~deb7u1", rls:"DEB7.3")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"pidgin-dev", ver:"2.10.9-1~deb7u1", rls:"DEB7.3")) != NULL) {
    report += res;
}

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

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Vulners AI Score0.3
EPSS0.14809
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