Updated kernel-rt packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

This kernel update provides an update to the 3.10 longterm branch, currently 3.10.28 and fixes the following security issues: The ath9khtcsetbssidmask function in drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htcdrvmain.c in the Linux kernel through 3.12 uses a BSSID masking approach to determine the set of MAC...

libgadu / libpurple / Pidgin multiple security vulnerabilities

Buffer overflow on libgadu protocol parsing. Yahoo!, XMPP, MSN, HTTP, STUN, IRC protocols and URL parsing DoS. HTTP, SIMPLE protocols and MXit emoticons parsing memory corruptions...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.10 : pidgin vulnerabilities (USN-2100-1)

Thijs Alkemade and Robert Vehse discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled the Yahoo! protocol. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Pidgin to crash, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2012-6152 Jaime Breva Ribes discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled the XMPP protocol. A remote...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-0020

The IRC protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not validate argument counts, which allows remote IRC servers to cause a denial of service application crash via a crafted message...

CVE-2014-0020

The IRC protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not validate argument counts, which allows remote IRC servers to cause a denial of service application crash via a crafted message...

CVE-2014-0020

The IRC protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not validate argument counts, which allows remote IRC servers to cause a denial of service application crash via a crafted message...

Code injection

The IRC protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not validate argument counts, which allows remote IRC servers to cause a denial of service application crash via a crafted message...

CVE-2014-0020

The IRC protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not validate argument counts, which allows remote IRC servers to cause a denial of service application crash via a crafted message...

CVE-2014-0020

The CVE-2014-0020 entry applies to Pidgin with libpurple’s IRC protocol plugin (pre-2.10.8). The issue is that the IRC plugin does not validate argument counts, allowing remote IRC servers to crash the application (DoS) via a crafted message. Public advisories across distributions indicate this h...

CVE-2014-0020

The IRC protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not validate argument counts, which allows remote IRC servers to cause a denial of service application crash via a crafted message...

CVE-2014-0020

The IRC protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not validate argument counts, which allows remote IRC servers to cause a denial of service application crash via a crafted message...

CVE-2014-0020: Improper Input Validation

The IRC protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not validate argument counts, which allows remote IRC servers to cause a denial of service application crash via a crafted message...

British Intelligence Agency DDoSed Anonymous Chatrooms to disrupt communication

Since 2011, the collective hacking group, Anonymous and LulzSec were targeting both Government and law-enforcement websites of U.S and UK, by their own DDoS attack tactics which they used to communicate and plan on Chat rooms known as IRCs, but British intelligence agency GCHQ used their own weap...

pidgin: DoS in IRC protocol plugin due to arguement parsing

The IRC protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not validate argument counts, which allows remote IRC servers to cause a denial of service application crash via a crafted message...

Updated pidgin package fixes security vulnerabilities

Many places in the Yahoo! protocol plugin assumed incoming strings were UTF-8 and failed to transcode from non-UTF-8 encodings. This can lead to a crash when receiving strings that aren't UTF-8 CVE-2012-6152. A remote XMPP user can trigger a crash on some systems by sending a message with a...

Fedora Update for seamonkey FEDORA-2013-23654

Check for the Version of seamonkey OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for seamonkey FEDORA-2013-23654 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright C 2014 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under t...

CVE-2014-0020

The IRC protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not validate argument counts, which allows remote IRC servers to cause a denial of service application crash via a crafted message...

PT-2014-1293

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Pidgin versions prior to 2.10.8 Description The issue is related to the IRC protocol plugin in libpurple, which does not validate argument counts. This allows remote IRC servers to cause a denial of service, resulting in the application...

Malicious Java App is Cross-Platform Botnet

Java-related security issues have remained relatively quiet during the past few months, especially after a rocky start to 2013 seemingly had one Java flaw after another in the news. Things might be starting to ramp up again with the discovery of a cross-platform Java-based botnet. Researchers at...

PT-2014-4293 · Linux +2 · Linux Kernel +2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 3.12.8 Description: The issue allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory. This is achieved by establishing an IRC DCC session where incorrect packet data is transmitted during the...