Pidgin 2.10.10 Patches SSL MiTM, DoS Vulnerabilities

A handful of security vulnerabilities were patched in the most recent release of the Pidgin open source instant messaging client, Pidgin 2.10.10, including a SSL/TLS certificate validation issue that could be exploited in man-in-the-middle attacks. Reported by Jacob Appelbaum of the Tor Project,...

Pidgin libpurple Mxit Emoticon ASN Length Denial of Service Vulnerability

Talos Vulnerability Report VRT-2014-0203 Pidgin libpurple Mxit Emoticon ASN Length Denial of Service Vulnerability November 6, 2014 CVE Number CVE-2014-3695 Description An exploitable denial of service vulnerability exists in Pidgin’s implementation of the Mxit protocol in the libpurple library. ...

Pidgin libpurple Novell Protocol Multiple Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

Talos Vulnerability Report VRT-2014-0204 Pidgin libpurple Novell Protocol Multiple Denial of Service Vulnerabilities November 6, 2014 CVE Number CVE-2014-3696 Description Several exploitable denial of service vulnerabilities exist in Pidgin’s implementation of the Novell protocol in the libpurple...

CVE-2014-3694

The 1 bundled GnuTLS SSL/TLS plugin and the 2 bundled OpenSSL SSL/TLS plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.10 do not properly consider the Basic Constraints extension during verification of X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and...

CVE-2014-3698

The jabberidnvalidate function in jutil.c in the Jabber protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.10 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory via a crafted XMPP message...

CVE-2014-3696

nmevent.c in the Novell GroupWise protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.10 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service application crash via a crafted server message that triggers a large memory allocation...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3698

The jabberidnvalidate function in jutil.c in the Jabber protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.10 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory via a crafted XMPP message...

CVE-2014-3698

The jabberidnvalidate function in jutil.c in the Jabber protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.10 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory via a crafted XMPP message...

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...

DEBIAN-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...

Information disclosure

The 1 bundled GnuTLS SSL/TLS plugin and the 2 bundled OpenSSL SSL/TLS plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.10 do not properly consider the Basic Constraints extension during verification of X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and...

Memory corruption

The jabberidnvalidate function in jutil.c in the Jabber protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.10 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory via a crafted XMPP message...

CVE-2014-3696

CVE-2014-3696 affects Pidgin/libpurple via the Novell GroupWise protocol plugin. A crafted server message could trigger a large memory allocation, causing an application crash (DoS). Across sources, the vulnerability is addressed by upgradingPidgin/libpurple to a version that includes the fix (e....

CVE-2014-3695

CVE-2014-3695 concerns Pidgin’s libpurple MXit protocol plugin. A remote attacker could crash the client by sending an emoticon response with a large length value, enabling a denial of service. Upstream fixes were released in the 2.10.10 series; several advisories (CentOS, Debian, Mageia, Arch) d...

CVE-2014-3698

CVE-2014-3698 affects Pidgin/libpurple (Jabber/XMPP) via the jabber_idn_validate function in jutil.c. A crafted XMPP message can cause the process to disclose memory belonging to the pidgin process (information disclosure). Upstream references and security advisories document this alongside relat...

CVE-2014-3696

nmevent.c in the Novell GroupWise protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.10 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service application crash via a crafted server message that triggers a large memory allocation...

CVE-2014-3694

The CVE-2014-3694 issue affects Pidgin/libpurple: the bundled GnuTLS and OpenSSL SSL/TLS plugins do not correctly handle the Basic Constraints extension when verifying X.509 certificates, enabling MITM attackers to spoof servers or obtain sensitive data via crafted certificates. The vulnerability...

CVE-2014-3698

The jabberidnvalidate function in jutil.c in the Jabber protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.10 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory via a crafted XMPP message...

CVE-2014-3694

The 1 bundled GnuTLS SSL/TLS plugin and the 2 bundled OpenSSL SSL/TLS plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.10 do not properly consider the Basic Constraints extension during verification of X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and...

CVE-2014-3696

nmevent.c in the Novell GroupWise protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.10 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service application crash via a crafted server message that triggers a large memory allocation...