Bug 612188 (CVE-2017-2640)

Summary:	<net-im/pidgin-2.12.0: Out-of-bounds write in purple_markup_unescape_entity triggered by invalid XML
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) <whissi>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	polynomial-c
Priority:	Normal	Flags:	stable-bot: sanity-check+
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=109
Whiteboard:	B2 [glsa cve]
Package list:	=net-im/pidgin-2.12.0	Runtime testing required:	---

Description Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-03-10 10:40:31 UTC

An out-of-bounds write vulnerability was found in purple_markup_unescape_entity. It can be triggered by sending invalid XML entities separated by whitespace, eg "&#3000;". In default installation, this can get called only when receiving data from a server.

Comment 1 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-03-10 10:42:23 UTC

@ Maintainer(s): Please bump to >=net-im/pidgin-2.12.0 and tell us if the ebuild is already ready for stabilization.

Comment 2 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-03-10 11:32:21 UTC

commit 537cb9899b69046682bbf4866d69ad6f03d70e7b
Author: Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org>
Date:   Fri Mar 10 12:14:23 2017

    net-im/pidgin: Security bump to version 2.12.0 (bug #612188).

    Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.4, Repoman-2.3.2


Arches please test and mark stable =net-im/pidgin-2.12.0 with target KEYWORDS:

alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 ppc ppc64 sparc x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~x86-macos

Comment 3 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2017-03-10 13:09:19 UTC

amd64 stable

Comment 4 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2017-03-10 13:09:58 UTC

x86 stable

Comment 5 Michael Weber (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-03-10 16:59:09 UTC

ppc64 stable.

Comment 6 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2017-03-11 17:21:30 UTC

ia64 stable

Comment 7 Michael Weber (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-03-11 23:13:46 UTC

arm ppc stable.

Comment 8 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-03-14 16:25:12 UTC

Stable for HPPA.

Comment 9 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2017-03-17 10:43:18 UTC

sparc stable

Comment 10 Tobias Klausmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-04-05 07:29:52 UTC

Stable on alpha.

Comment 11 Yury German Gentoo Infrastructure

2017-04-19 06:29:03 UTC

Arches, Thank you for your work.
New GLSA Request filed.

Maintainer(s), please drop the vulnerable version(s).

Comment 12 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev

2017-06-06 19:40:16 UTC

This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201706-10 at https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-10
by GLSA coordinator Kristian Fiskerstrand (K_F).

Comment 13 Kristian Fiskerstrand (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-06-07 10:56:32 UTC

Re-opening for cleanup

Comment 14 Yury German Gentoo Infrastructure

2017-07-04 21:28:31 UTC

Maintainer(s), please drop the vulnerable version(s).

Comment 15 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-07-05 09:26:39 UTC

commit f8816e402b0d7af24582a5a6c1570c99343c61ab (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD)             
Author: Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org>      
Date:   Wed Jul 5 11:24:51 2017                     

    net-im/pidgin: Security cleanup for bug #612188 
                                                    
    Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.6, Repoman-2.3.2

Comment 16 Aaron Bauman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-08-09 01:54:27 UTC

(In reply to Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) from comment #15)
> commit f8816e402b0d7af24582a5a6c1570c99343c61ab (HEAD -> master,
> origin/master, origin/HEAD)             
> Author: Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org>      
> Date:   Wed Jul 5 11:24:51 2017                     
> 
>     net-im/pidgin: Security cleanup for bug #612188 
>                                                     
>     Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.6, Repoman-2.3.2

thank you.