Denial Of Service (DoS)

pidgin is vulnerable to denial of service DoS. The vulnerability exists as an input sanitization flaw was found in the way the Pidgin SILC Secure Internet Live Conferencing protocol plug-in escaped certain UTF-8 characters. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash Pidgin via a...

CVE-2007-3728

Buffer overflow in lib/silcclient/clientnotify.c of SILC Client and SILC Toolkit before 1.1.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via "NICKCHANGE" notifications...

Vulnerabilities in the Debian GNU/Linux operating system that allow a remote attacker to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information

The multiple vulnerabilities in the silc package of the Debian GNU/Linux operating system may lead to breaches of the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information. These vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: pidgin-2.10.10-1.fc20

Pidgin allows you to talk to anyone using a variety of messaging protocols including AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, Jabber, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, ICQ, IRC, Novell Groupwise, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, Simple and Zephyr. These protocols are implemented using a modular, easy to use design. To use a protocol, just...

[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: pidgin-2.10.10-2.fc21

Pidgin allows you to talk to anyone using a variety of messaging protocols including AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, Jabber, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, ICQ, IRC, Novell Groupwise, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, Simple and Zephyr. These protocols are implemented using a modular, easy to use design. To use a protocol, just...

Silc Server 1.0.2 New Channel Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22846/info SILC Server is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability because the application fails to handle exceptional conditions. An attacker can exploit this issue to crash the affected server, effectively denying...

openSUSE Security Update : pidgin / pidgin-branding-openSUSE (openSUSE-SU-2014:0239-1)

Update to version 2.10.8 bnc861019 : + General: Python build scripts and example plugins are now compatible with Python 3 pidgin.im15624. + libpurple : - Fix potential crash if libpurple gets an error attempting to read a reply from a STUN server CVE-2013-6484. - Fix potential crash parsing a...

openSUSE Security Update : pidgin (openSUSE-2012-29)

pidgin was updated to version 2.10.1 + AIM and ICQ : - Fix remotely-triggerable crashes by validating strings in a few messages related to buddy list management bnc736147, CVE-2011-4601. + Bonjour : - IPv6 fixes + Gadu-Gadu : - Fix problems linking against GnuTLS. + IRC : - Fix a memory leak when...

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-2011:1291-1)

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 : pidgin (openSUSE-2011-35)

specially crafted SILC messages could crash libpurple 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 openSUSE-2011-35. The text description of this plugin is C SUSE LLC...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: pidgin-2.10.9-1.fc19

Pidgin allows you to talk to anyone using a variety of messaging protocols including AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, Jabber, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, ICQ, IRC, Novell Groupwise, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, Simple and Zephyr. These protocols are implemented using a modular, easy to use design. To use a protocol, just...

Oracle Linux 4 : pidgin (ELSA-2008-1023)

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2008:1023 : Updated Pidgin packages that fix several security issues and bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Pidgin is a multi-protocol...

Fedora Update for pidgin FEDORA-2012-10287

Check for the Version of pidgin OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for pidgin FEDORA-2012-10287 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the ter...

Scientific Linux Security Update : pidgin on SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64

A denial-of-service flaw was found in Pidgin's MSN protocol handler. If a remote user was able to send, and the Pidgin user accepted, a carefully-crafted file request, it could result in Pidgin crashing. CVE-2008-2955 A denial-of-service flaw was found in Pidgin's Universal Plug and Play UPnP...

Scientific Linux Security Update : pidgin on SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64

Pidgin is an instant messaging program which can log in to multiple accounts on multiple instant messaging networks simultaneously. An input sanitization flaw was found in the way the AOL Open System for Communication in Realtime OSCAR protocol plug-in in Pidgin, used by the AOL ICQ and AIM insta...

CentOS Update for finch CESA-2011:1820 centos5 x86_64

Check for the Version of finch OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for finch CESA-2011:1820 centos5 x8664 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it unde...

[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: pidgin-2.10.5-1.fc16

Pidgin allows you to talk to anyone using a variety of messaging protocols including AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, Jabber, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, ICQ, IRC, Novell Groupwise, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, Simple and Zephyr. These protocols are implemented using a modular, easy to use design. To use a protocol, just...

Ubuntu Update for pidgin USN-1500-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1500-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN15001.nasl 7960 2017-12-01 06:58:16Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for pidgin USN-1500-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This...