openSUSE Security Update : pidgin (openSUSE-SU-2014:1397-1)

Update to version 2.10.10 : + General : - Check the basic constraints extension when validating SSL/TLS certificates. This fixes a security hole that allowed a malicious man-in-the-middle to impersonate an IM server or any other https endpoint. This affected both the NSS and GnuTLS plugins...

MIRcon 2014 – Day 1 Highlights

The first day of MIRcon 2014 is officially done and was packed with thought-provoking keynotes, presentations and a one-of-a-kind reception. While there's too much to fit into this blog post, I wanted to provide you with some of the highlights: FireEye's COO, Kevin Mandia kicked-off MIRcon and wa...

openSUSE Security Update : finch (openSUSE-SU-2011:1291-1)

This update fixes the following security issues : - 722199: libpurple vulnerability in SILC protocol handling CVE-2011-3594 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from openSUSE Security Update finch-5485. The text...

openSUSE Security Update : finch (openSUSE-SU-2011:1291-1)

This update fixes the following security issues : - 722199: libpurple vulnerability in SILC protocol handling CVE-2011-3594 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from openSUSE Security Update finch-5485. The text...

openSUSE Security Update : finch (openSUSE-SU-2012:0066-1)

Remote users could crash pidgin via ICQ, SILC, XMPP and Yahoo protocols CVE-2011-4601, CVE-2011-4603, CVE-2011-4602, CVE-2011-1091. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from openSUSE Security Update finch-5557...

openSUSE Security Update : finch (openSUSE-SU-2011:0021-1)

A NULL pointer dereference DoS has been fixed in pidgin. CVE-2010-4528 has been assigned to this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from openSUSE Security Update finch-3783. The text description of this...

openSUSE Security Update : finch (openSUSE-SU-2012:0066-1)

Remote users could crash pidgin via ICQ, SILC, XMPP and Yahoo protocols CVE-2011-4601, CVE-2011-4603, CVE-2011-4602, CVE-2011-1091. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from openSUSE Security Update finch-5557...

CentOS Update for finch CESA-2014:0139 centos6

Check for the Version of finch OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for finch CESA-2014:0139 centos6 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 the...

CentOS Update for finch CESA-2014:0139 centos5

Check for the Version of finch OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for finch CESA-2014:0139 centos5 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 the...

CentOS Update for finch CESA-2014:0139 centos5

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

CentOS Update for finch CESA-2014:0139 centos6

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

finch, libpurple, pidgin security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2014:0139 Updated pidgin packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVS...

CentOS Update for finch CESA-2013:0646 centos6

Check for the Version of finch OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for finch CESA-2013:0646 centos6 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...

CentOS Update for finch CESA-2013:0646 centos5

Check for the Version of finch OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for finch CESA-2013:0646 centos5 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...

CentOS Update for finch CESA-2013:0646 centos5

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptxrefname:"URL",...

CentOS Update for finch CESA-2013:0646 centos6

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptxrefname:"URL",...

finch, libpurple, pidgin security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2013:0646 Updated pidgin packages that fix three security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS...

SuSE 11.1 Security Update : pidgin, finch and libpurple (SAT Patch Number 6534)

This update of pidgin fixes a stack-based buffer overflow in the MXit protocol which could have potentially been exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code in the context of the user running pidgin. CVE-2012-3374 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive te...

SuSE 11.1 Security Update : finch, libpurple and pidgin (SAT Patch Number 6294)

Various remote triggerable crashes in pidgin have been fixed : - In some situations the MSN server sends text that isn't UTF-8 encoded, and Pidgin fails to verify the text's encoding. In some cases this can lead to a crash when attempting to display the text . CVE-2012-1178 - Incoming messages wi...

SuSE 11.1 Security Update : finch, libpurple and pidgin (SAT Patch Number 6294)

Various remote triggerable crashes in pidgin have been fixed : - In some situations the MSN server sends text that isn't UTF-8 encoded, and Pidgin fails to verify the text's encoding. In some cases this can lead to a crash when attempting to display the text . CVE-2012-1178 - Incoming messages wi...