SuSE 10 Security Update : pidgin, gaim and finch (ZYPP Patch Number 5573)

specially crafted MSN SLP messages could cause an integer overflow in pidgin. Attackers could potentially exploit that to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2008-2927 - overly long file names in MSN file transfers could crash pidgin. CVE-2008-2955 - SSL certifcates were not verfied. Therefore piding...

USN-886-1: Pidgin vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Pidgin did not properly handle certain topic messages in the IRC protocol handler. If a user were tricked into connecting to a malicious IRC server, an attacker could cause Pidgin to crash, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, Ubuntu 8.1...

Mandriva Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:321 (pidgin)

The remote host is missing an update to pidgin announced via advisory MDVSA-2009:321. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: mdksa2009321.nasl 6573 2017-07-06 13:10:50Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from advisory MDVSA-2009:321 pidgin Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2009 E-Soft In...

openSUSE Security Update : finch (finch-188)

specially crafted MSN SLP messages could cause an integer overflow in pidgin. Attackers could potentially exploit that to execute arbitrary code CVE-2008-2927. - overly long file names in MSN file transfers could crash pidgin CVE-2008-2955. - SSL certifcates were not verfied. Therefore piding...

RedHat Update for pidgin RHSA-2008:1023-01

Check for the Version of pidgin OpenVAS Vulnerability Test RedHat Update for pidgin RHSA-2008:1023-01 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the ter...

CentOS Update for finch CESA-2008:1023 centos4 i386

Check for the Version of finch OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for finch CESA-2008:1023 centos4 i386 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under...

CentOS Update for finch CESA-2008:1023 centos4 x86_64

Check for the Version of finch OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for finch CESA-2008:1023 centos4 x8664 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it unde...

CVE-2008-2955

Pidgin 2.4.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash via a long filename that contains certain characters, as demonstrated using an MSN message that triggers the crash in the msnslplinkprocessmsg function...

CVE-2008-2955

Pidgin 2.4.1 vulnerability CVE-2008-2955 allows remote denial of service by sending a MSN message with a long filename containing certain characters, triggering a crash in msn_slplink_process_msg. Connected advisories corroborate a crash condition in Pidgin’s MSN protocol handler and note related...