pidgin: DoS when rendering long URLs

gtkimhtml.c in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not properly interact with underlying library support for wide Pango layouts, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via a long URL that is examined with a tooltip...

pidgin: DoS when parsing certain HTTP response headers

util.c in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not properly allocate memory for HTTP responses that are inconsistent with the Content-Length header, which allows remote HTTP servers to cause a denial of service application crash via a crafted response...

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...

MGASA-2014-0034 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...

CVE-2013-6481

libpurple/protocols/yahoo/libymsg.c in Pidgin before 2.10.8 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...

CVE-2013-6490

The SIMPLE protocol functionality in Pidgin before 2.10.8 allows remote attackers to have an unspecified impact via a negative Content-Length header, which triggers a buffer overflow...

CVE-2014-0020

The IRC protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not validate argument counts, which allows remote IRC servers to cause a denial of service application crash via a crafted message...

CVE-2013-6483

The XMPP protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not properly determine whether the from address in an iq reply is consistent with the to address in an iq request, which allows remote attackers to spoof iq traffic or cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and...

CVE-2013-6478

gtkimhtml.c in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not properly interact with underlying library support for wide Pango layouts, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via a long URL that is examined with a tooltip...

CVE-2013-6484

The STUN protocol implementation in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 allows remote STUN servers to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds write operation and application crash by triggering a socket read error...

CVE-2013-6485

Buffer overflow in util.c in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 allows remote HTTP servers to cause a denial of service application crash or possibly have unspecified other impact via an invalid chunk-size field in chunked transfer-coding data...

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-2013-6479

util.c in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not properly allocate memory for HTTP responses that are inconsistent with the Content-Length header, which allows remote HTTP servers to cause a denial of service application crash via a crafted response...

CVE-2013-6477

Multiple integer signedness errors in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via a crafted timestamp value in an XMPP message...

CVE-2013-6482

Pidgin before 2.10.8 allows remote MSN servers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and crash via a crafted 1 SOAP response, 2 OIM XML response, or 3 Content-Length header...

pidgin security update

2.7.9-27.el6 - Fix regression in CVE-2013-6483. 2.7.9-26.el6 - Fix patch for CVE-2012-6152 RH bug 1058242. 2.7.9-25.el6 - Add patch for CVE-2014-0020 RH bug 1058242. 2.7.9-24.el6 - Add patch for CVE-2013-6490 RH bug 1058242. 2.7.9-23.el6 - Add patch for CVE-2013-6489 RH bug 1058242. 2.7.9-22.el6 ...

Pidgin < 2.10.8 Multiple Vulnerabilities

The version of Pidgin installed on the remote host is a version prior to 2.10.8. It is, therefore, potentially affected by the following vulnerabilities : - The bundled version of Pango has an error that can lead to an application crash when rendering fonts and attempting to display certain Unico...

Slackware 13.0 / 13.1 / 13.37 / 14.0 / 14.1 / current : pidgin (SSA:2014-034-01)

New pidgin packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix security issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2014-034-01. The text...

pidgin

New pidgin packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/pidgin-2.10.9-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes various security issues and other bugs. For...