RedHat Update for pidgin containing security patches to fix multiple vulnerabilities in the Pidgin instant messaging program
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redhat | www.redhat.com/archives/rhsa-announce/2012-July/msg00021.html |
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# OpenVAS Vulnerability Test
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# RedHat Update for pidgin RHSA-2012:1102-01
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# Authors:
# System Generated Check
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# Copyright:
# Copyright (c) 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net
#
# 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 any later version), 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.
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include("revisions-lib.inc");
tag_insight = "Pidgin is an instant messaging program which can log in to multiple
accounts on multiple instant messaging networks simultaneously.
A flaw was found in the way the Pidgin MSN protocol plug-in processed text
that was not encoded in UTF-8. A remote attacker could use this flaw to
crash Pidgin by sending a specially-crafted MSN message. (CVE-2012-1178)
An input validation flaw was found in the way the Pidgin MSN protocol
plug-in handled MSN notification messages. A malicious server or a remote
attacker could use this flaw to crash Pidgin by sending a specially-crafted
MSN notification message. (CVE-2012-2318)
A buffer overflow flaw was found in the Pidgin MXit protocol plug-in. A
remote attacker could use this flaw to crash Pidgin by sending a MXit
message containing specially-crafted emoticon tags. (CVE-2012-3374)
All Pidgin users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain
backported patches to resolve these issues. Pidgin must be restarted for
this update to take effect.";
tag_affected = "pidgin on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6),
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)";
tag_solution = "Please Install the Updated Packages.";
if(description)
{
script_xref(name : "URL" , value : "https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhsa-announce/2012-July/msg00021.html");
script_id(870795);
script_version("$Revision: 8285 $");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"$Date: 2018-01-04 07:29:16 +0100 (Thu, 04 Jan 2018) $");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2012-07-23 10:46:39 +0530 (Mon, 23 Jul 2012)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2012-1178", "CVE-2012-2318", "CVE-2012-3374");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"7.5");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_xref(name: "RHSA", value: "2012:1102-01");
script_name("RedHat Update for pidgin RHSA-2012:1102-01");
script_tag(name: "summary" , value: "Check for the Version of pidgin");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (c) 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH");
script_family("Red Hat Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/rhel", "ssh/login/rpms");
script_tag(name : "affected" , value : tag_affected);
script_tag(name : "solution" , value : tag_solution);
script_tag(name : "insight" , value : tag_insight);
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"package");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
exit(0);
}
include("pkg-lib-rpm.inc");
release = get_kb_item("ssh/login/release");
res = "";
if(release == NULL){
exit(0);
}
if(release == "RHENT_6")
{
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"libpurple", rpm:"libpurple~2.7.9~5.el6.2", rls:"RHENT_6")) != NULL)
{
security_message(data:res);
exit(0);
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"pidgin", rpm:"pidgin~2.7.9~5.el6.2", rls:"RHENT_6")) != NULL)
{
security_message(data:res);
exit(0);
}
if ((res = isrpmvuln(pkg:"pidgin-debuginfo", rpm:"pidgin-debuginfo~2.7.9~5.el6.2", rls:"RHENT_6")) != NULL)
{
security_message(data:res);
exit(0);
}
if (__pkg_match) exit(99); # Not vulnerable.
exit(0);
}
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