Pidgin 2.10.10 Patches SSL MiTM, DoS Vulnerabilities

A handful of security vulnerabilities were patched in the most recent release of the Pidgin open source instant messaging client, Pidgin 2.10.10, including a SSL/TLS certificate validation issue that could be exploited in man-in-the-middle attacks. Reported by Jacob Appelbaum of the Tor Project,...

CVE-2014-8564

The gnutlseccansix963export function in gnutlsecc.c in GnuTLS 3.x before 3.1.28, 3.2.x before 3.2.20, and 3.3.x before 3.3.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds write via a crafted 1 Elliptic Curve Cryptography ECC certificate or 2 certificate signing requests CSR,...

RHEL 6 : rhev-hypervisor6 (RHSA-2012:0531)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2012:0531 advisory. The rhev-hypervisor6 package provides a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor ISO disk image. The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization...

RHEL 4 / 5 / 6 : gnutls (RHSA-2014:0288)

Updated gnutls packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Extended Life Cycle Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3, 5.6 and 6.2 Long Life, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9, 6.3 and 6.4 Extended Update Support. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rate...

CVE-2014-3694

The 1 bundled GnuTLS SSL/TLS plugin and the 2 bundled OpenSSL SSL/TLS plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.10 do not properly consider the Basic Constraints extension during verification of X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and...

CVE-2014-3694

The 1 bundled GnuTLS SSL/TLS plugin and the 2 bundled OpenSSL SSL/TLS plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.10 do not properly consider the Basic Constraints extension during verification of X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and...

Information disclosure

The 1 bundled GnuTLS SSL/TLS plugin and the 2 bundled OpenSSL SSL/TLS plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.10 do not properly consider the Basic Constraints extension during verification of X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and...

CVE-2014-3694

The 1 bundled GnuTLS SSL/TLS plugin and the 2 bundled OpenSSL SSL/TLS plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.10 do not properly consider the Basic Constraints extension during verification of X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and...

Updated pidgin packages fix security vulnerabilities

In Pidgin before 2.10.10, both of libpurple's bundled SSL/TLS plugins one for GnuTLS and one for NSS failed to check that the Basic Constraints extension allowed intermediate certificates to act as CAs. This allowed anyone with any valid certificate to create a fake certificate for any arbitrary...

Oracle Linux 6 : rsyslog7 (ELSA-2014-1654)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2014-1654 advisory. 7.4.10-3 - fix CVE-2014-3634 resolves: 1149150 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory. Note that...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3694

The 1 bundled GnuTLS SSL/TLS plugin and the 2 bundled OpenSSL SSL/TLS plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.10 do not properly consider the Basic Constraints extension during verification of X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and...

CVE-2014-3694

The 1 bundled GnuTLS SSL/TLS plugin and the 2 bundled OpenSSL SSL/TLS plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.10 do not properly consider the Basic Constraints extension during verification of X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and...

SOL15721 - GnuTLS vulnerability CVE-2013-1619

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VLC Media Player < 2.1.5 Multiple Vulnerabilities

The version of VLC media player installed on the remote host is prior to 2.1.5. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities : - An error exists in the pngpushreadchunk function within the file 'pngpread.c' from the included libpng library that can allow denial of service attacks...

Amazon Linux AMI : gnutls (ALAS-2014-352)

A flaw was found in the way GnuTLS parsed session IDs from ServerHello messages of the TLS/SSL handshake. A malicious server could use this flaw to send an excessively long session ID value, which would trigger a buffer overflow in a connecting TLS/SSL client application using GnuTLS, causing the...

F5 Networks BIG-IP : GnuTLS vulnerability (SOL15637)

The gnutlsciphertext2compressed function in lib/gnutlscipher.c in GnuTLS 2.12.23 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service buffer over-read and crash via a crafted padding length. NOTE: this might be due to an incorrect fix for CVE-2013-0169. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

SOL15637 - GnuTLS vulnerability CVE-2013-2116

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openSUSE Security Update : exim (openSUSE-SU-2014:0983-1)

"Changes in exim : - Silence static checkers; beo1506. - update to 4.83 This release of Exim includes one incompatible fix : + the behavior of expansion of arguments to math comparison functions , was unexpected, expanding the values twice; CVE-2014-2972; bnc888520 This release contains the...

RHEL 7 : gnutls (RHSA-2014:0684)

Updated gnutls packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are...

RHEL 7 : libtasn1 (RHSA-2014:0687)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2014:0687 advisory. The libtasn1 library provides Abstract Syntax Notation One ASN.1 parsing and structures management, and Distinguished Encoding Rules DER...