USN-2390-1 pidgin vulnerabilities

Jacob Appelbaum and an anonymous person discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled certificate validation. A remote attacker could exploit this to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack to view sensitive information or alter encrypted communications. CVE-2014-3694 Yves Younan and Richard Johnson...

CVE-2014-3695

markup.c in the MXit protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.10 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service application crash via a large length value in an emoticon response...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3695

markup.c in the MXit protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.10 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service application crash via a large length value in an emoticon response...

PT-2014-5456

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Pidgin versions prior to 2.10.10 Description The issue allows remote servers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an application crash, by sending a large length value in an emoticon response. This is related to the markup.c file in the...

libpurple: remote dos and information leakage

A malicious server and possibly even a malicious remote user could create a carefully crafted XMPP message that causes libpurple to send an XMPP message containing arbitrary memory. A malicious server or man-in-the-middle could trigger a crash in libpurple by sending an emoticon via MXit with an...

KLA10448 Multiple Pidgin vulnerabilities

Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in Pidgin. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to cause denial of service, obtain sensitive information and write local files. Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities 1. Vectors related to Jabber protocol can be exploited remotely...

openSUSE Security Update : pidgin / pidgin-branding-openSUSE (openSUSE-SU-2014:0239-1)

Update to version 2.10.8 bnc861019 : + General: Python build scripts and example plugins are now compatible with Python 3 pidgin.im15624. + libpurple : - Fix potential crash if libpurple gets an error attempting to read a reply from a STUN server CVE-2013-6484. - Fix potential crash parsing a...

openSUSE Security Update : pidgin (openSUSE-SU-2013:0511-1)

Pidgin was updated to 2.10.7 to fix various security issues and the bug that IRC did not work at all in 12.3. Changes : - Add pidgin-irc-sasl.patch: link irc module to SASL. Allows the IRC module to be loaded bnc806975. - Update to version 2.10.7 bnc804742 : + Alien hatchery : - No changes +...

openSUSE Security Update : pidgin (openSUSE-SU-2013:0405-1)

pidgin was updated to fix security issues : - Fix a crash when receiving UPnP responses with abnormally long values. CVE-2013-0274 - Fix a crash in Sametime when a malicious server sends us an abnormally long user ID. CVE-2013-0273 - Fix a bug where the MXit server or a man-in-the-middle could...

Debian DSA-2859-1 : pidgin - several vulnerabilities

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 throug...

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-2013-6489

Integer signedness error in the MXit functionality in Pidgin before 2.10.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service segmentation fault via a crafted emoticon value, which triggers an integer overflow and a buffer overflow...

Integer overflow

Integer signedness error in the MXit functionality in Pidgin before 2.10.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service segmentation fault via a crafted emoticon value, which triggers an integer overflow and a buffer overflow...

CVE-2013-6489

Integer signedness error in the MXit functionality in Pidgin before 2.10.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service segmentation fault via a crafted emoticon value, which triggers an integer overflow and a buffer overflow...

CVE-2013-6489

Integer signedness error in the MXit functionality in Pidgin before 2.10.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service segmentation fault via a crafted emoticon value, which triggers an integer overflow and a buffer overflow...

CVE-2013-6489

Integer signedness error in the MXit functionality in Pidgin before 2.10.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service segmentation fault via a crafted emoticon value, which triggers an integer overflow and a buffer overflow...

CVE-2013-6489: Undefined Security Weakness

Integer signedness error in the MXit functionality in Pidgin before 2.10.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service segmentation fault via a crafted emoticon value, which triggers an integer overflow and a buffer overflow...

pidgin: Heap-based buffer overflow in MXit emoticon parsing

Integer signedness error in the MXit functionality in Pidgin before 2.10.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service segmentation fault via a crafted emoticon value, which triggers an integer overflow and a buffer overflow...

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...