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Pidgin Multiple Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA35194
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Release Date:
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2009-05-22
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Last Update:
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2009-06-09
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Popularity:
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2,204 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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DoS
System access
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Pidgin 2.x
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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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Description:
Some vulnerabilities and weaknesses have been reported in Pidgin, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or to potentially compromise a user's system.
1) A truncation error in the processing of MSN SLP messages can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow.
This is related to:
SA30971
2) A boundary error in the XMPP SOCKS5 "bytestream" server when initiating an outgoing file transfer can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow.
Successful exploitation of vulnerabilities #1 and #2 may allow execution of arbitrary code.
3) A boundary error exists in the implementation of the "PurpleCircBuffer" structure. This can be exploited to corrupt memory and cause a crash via specially crafted XMPP or Sametime packets.
4) A boundary error in the "decrypt_out()" function can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow with 8 bytes and crash the application via a specially crafted QQ packet.
The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 2.5.6.
Change Page:
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