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...

CVE-2012-6152

The Yahoo! protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not properly validate UTF-8 data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via crafted byte sequences...

PT-2014-1295

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Pidgin versions prior to 2.10.8 Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash via a Yahoo! P2P message with a crafted length field, which triggers a buffer over-read. This is due to a vulnerability in the...

PT-2014-2379

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Pidgin versions prior to 2.10.8 Description The issue concerns the improper validation of UTF-8 data in the Yahoo! protocol plugin in libpurple, which can be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in the...

USN-1273-1: Pidgin vulnerabilities

Marius Wachtler discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled malformed YMSG messages in the Yahoo! protocol handler. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted message and cause Pidgin to crash, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and 10.10. CVE-2011-1091...

Pidgin: Multiple NULL pointer dereference flaws in Yahoo protocol plug-in

libymsg.c in the Yahoo! protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin 2.6.0 through 2.7.10 allows 1 remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and application crash via a malformed YMSG notification packet, and allows 2 remote Yahoo! servers to cause a denial of...

CVE-2011-1091

libymsg.c in the Yahoo! protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin 2.6.0 through 2.7.10 allows 1 remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and application crash via a malformed YMSG notification packet, and allows 2 remote Yahoo! servers to cause a denial of...

DEBIAN-CVE-2011-1091

libymsg.c in the Yahoo! protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin 2.6.0 through 2.7.10 allows 1 remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and application crash via a malformed YMSG notification packet, and allows 2 remote Yahoo! servers to cause a denial of...

CVE-2011-1091

libymsg.c in the Yahoo! protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin 2.6.0 through 2.7.10 allows 1 remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and application crash via a malformed YMSG notification packet, and allows 2 remote Yahoo! servers to cause a denial of...

Null pointer dereference

libymsg.c in the Yahoo! protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin 2.6.0 through 2.7.10 allows 1 remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and application crash via a malformed YMSG notification packet, and allows 2 remote Yahoo! servers to cause a denial of...

CVE-2011-1091

libymsg.c in the Yahoo! protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin 2.6.0 through 2.7.10 allows 1 remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and application crash via a malformed YMSG notification packet, and allows 2 remote Yahoo! servers to cause a denial of...

CVE-2011-1091

libymsg.c in the Yahoo! protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin 2.6.0 through 2.7.10 allows 1 remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and application crash via a malformed YMSG notification packet, and allows 2 remote Yahoo! servers to cause a denial of...

CVE-2011-1091

libymsg.c in the Yahoo! protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin 2.6.0 through 2.7.10 allows 1 remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and application crash via a malformed YMSG notification packet, and allows 2 remote Yahoo! servers to cause a denial of...

Security fix for the ALT Linux 6 package pidgin version 2.7.11-alt1

March 14, 2011 Alexey Shabalin 2.7.11-alt1 - 2.7.11 - CVE-2011-1091: remote denial of service in Yahoo protocol plugin...

CVE-2011-1091: Undefined Security Weakness

libymsg.c in the Yahoo! protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin 2.6.0 through 2.7.10 allows 1 remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and application crash via a malformed YMSG notification packet, and allows 2 remote Yahoo! servers to cause a denial of...

CVE-2011-1091

libymsg.c in the Yahoo! protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin 2.6.0 through 2.7.10 allows 1 remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and application crash via a malformed YMSG notification packet, and allows 2 remote Yahoo! servers to cause a denial of...

Security fix for the ALT Linux 5 package pidgin-mini version 2.7.11-alt1

March 12, 2011 Slava Semushin 2.7.11-alt1 - Updated to 2.7.11 + CVE-2011-1091: remote denial of service in Yahoo protocol plugin...

Pidgin < 2.6.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities

The version of Pidgin installed on the remote host is earlier than 2.6.1. Such versions are reportedly affected by one or more of following issues : - The Yahoo protocol plugin may crash when receiving an IM from any user that contains a URL. CVE-2009-3025 - The XMPP protocol plugin can be tricke...

Fedora Core 10 FEDORA-2009-7370 (pidgin)

The remote host is missing an update to pidgin announced via advisory FEDORA-2009-7370. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: fcore20097370.nasl 6624 2017-07-10 06:11:55Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from advisory FEDORA-2009-7370 pidgin Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2009 E-So...

Fedora Core 11 FEDORA-2009-7359 (pidgin)

The remote host is missing an update to pidgin announced via advisory FEDORA-2009-7359. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: fcore20097359.nasl 6624 2017-07-10 06:11:55Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from advisory FEDORA-2009-7359 pidgin Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2009 E-So...