Bug 283814 – <net-im/pidgin-2.6.2: Multiple vulnerabilities (CVE-2009-{2703,3083,3084,3085})

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Security

[Description J M W 2009-09-06 08:32:10 UTC]

Pidgin 2.6.2 fixes a really bad bug, described at this url: http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/10043. This bug was preventing video calls
between gmail and pidgin users. Please bump this.  

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Dani Soufi 2009-09-06 15:48:18 UTC]

There are 4 security fixes for this release as described here http://pidgin.im/news/security/ and adds support for sending custom smileys in chats for MSN. Any suggested ebuilds?

[Comment 2 J M W 2009-09-06 18:30:07 UTC]

This is only a minor version change, so the version bump should be just a simple name change. The hard part is just getting the change into the portage tree. 

[Comment 3 Olivier Crete (RETIRED) 2009-09-07 00:13:20 UTC]

I added 2.6.2.. There are too many security bugs coming in, I suggest we make 2.6.2 stable on all supported architectures. That said, this means that bug #282263 must be solved first (or well, we can just drop those architectures, none of them are really relevant on the desktop anyway).

[Comment 4 Alex Legler (RETIRED) 2009-09-10 09:53:19 UTC]

CVE-2009-2703 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-2703):
  libpurple/protocols/irc/msgs.c in the IRC protocol plugin in
  libpurple in Pidgin before 2.6.2 allows remote IRC servers to cause a
  denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash)
  via a TOPIC message that lacks a topic string.

CVE-2009-3083 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-3083):
  The msn_slp_sip_recv function in libpurple/protocols/msn/slp.c in the
  MSN protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.6.2 allows remote
  attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and
  application crash) via an SLP invite message that lacks certain
  required fields, as demonstrated by a malformed message from a KMess
  client.

CVE-2009-3084 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-3084):
  The msn_slp_process_msg function in libpurple/protocols/msn/slpcall.c
  in the MSN protocol plugin in libpurple 2.6.0 and 2.6.1, as used in
  Pidgin before 2.6.2, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
  service (application crash) via a handwritten (aka Ink) message,
  related to an uninitialized variable and the incorrect "UTF16-LE"
  charset name.

CVE-2009-3085 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-3085):
  The XMPP protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.6.2 does not
  properly handle an error IQ stanza during an attempted fetch of a
  custom smiley, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
  service (application crash) via XHTML-IM content with cid: images.

[Comment 5 Tim Sammut (RETIRED) 2011-01-02 04:50:02 UTC]

Vulnerable packages are no longer in the tree. GLSA Vote: no.

[Comment 6 Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (RETIRED) 2011-01-03 20:17:20 UTC]

GLSA Vote: no -> Closing. Feel free to reopen if you disagree.