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Bug 289298 (CVE-2009-3615) - <net-im/pidgin-2.6.3 ICQ and maybe AIM remote crash (CVE-2009-3615)
Summary: <net-im/pidgin-2.6.3 ICQ and maybe AIM remote crash (CVE-2009-3615)
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2009-3615
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=41
Whiteboard: B3 [noglsa]
Keywords:
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Reported: 2009-10-16 10:55 UTC by Dani Soufi
Modified: 2010-03-05 21:24 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Dani Soufi 2009-10-16 10:55:10 UTC 
ChangeLog:

    * General
          o Fix a crash when performing DNS queries on Unixes that use the blocking DNS lookups. (Brian Lu) 

    * AIM and ICQ
          o Fix a crash when some clients send contacts in a format we don't understand.
          o Fix blocking and other privacy lists. (Thanks to AOL)

Security Fix: (http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=41)

Title: ICQ and maybe AIM remote crash
Summary: A remote user can cause libpurple-based clients to crash
Description: A specially crafted message can trigger an incorrect memory access in the oscar protocol plugin which can lead to a crash. This happens when the SIM IM client attempts to send contacts to a libpurple user.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Olivier Crete (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-10-16 16:37:04 UTC 
It has been bumped, moving over to security for security bug
Comment 2 Stefan Behte (RETIRED) gentoo-dev Security 2009-10-16 16:48:42 UTC 
Arches, please test and mark stable:
=net-im/pidgin-2.6.2
Target keywords : "alpha amd64 hppa ia64 ppc ppc64 sparc x86"
Comment 3 Stefan Behte (RETIRED) gentoo-dev Security 2009-10-16 16:50:49 UTC 
Sorry, my tree wasn't new enough, so the tool got the wrong version.
This is correct:

Arches, please test and mark stable:
=net-im/pidgin-2.6.3
Target keywords : "alpha amd64 hppa ia64 ppc ppc64 sparc x86"
Comment 4 Tobias Klausmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-10-18 14:34:40 UTC 
Stable on alpha, dragging a few necessary stabilizations along.
Comment 5 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-10-18 18:51:20 UTC 
Stable for HPPA.
Comment 6 Christian Faulhammer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-10-19 01:01:51 UTC 
x86 stable
Comment 7 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2009-10-19 03:41:39 UTC 
net-libs/farsight2-0.0.15 was stabilized but it requires net-libs/libnice-0.0.9 and it is still ~x86
Comment 8 Markus Meier gentoo-dev 2009-10-19 21:19:01 UTC 
x86 stable
Comment 9 Markus Meier gentoo-dev 2009-10-19 21:49:07 UTC 
amd64 stable
Comment 10 Alex Legler (RETIRED) archtester gentoo-dev Security 2009-10-20 22:02:57 UTC 
CVE-2009-3615 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-3615):
  The OSCAR protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.6.3 and
  Adium before 1.3.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
  service (application crash) via crafted contact-list data for (1) ICQ
  and possibly (2) AIM, as demonstrated by the SIM IM client.
Comment 11 nixnut (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-10-25 17:00:56 UTC 
ppc stable
Comment 12 Stefan Behte (RETIRED) gentoo-dev Security 2009-12-18 02:03:01 UTC 
*ping*
Comment 13 Brent Baude (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-01-20 19:22:15 UTC 
ppc64 done; i masked gstreamer use from pidgin which is what brought in farsight and subsequently libnice (which has a test failure).
Comment 14 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-02-19 19:35:23 UTC 
ia64/sparc stable
Comment 15 Alex Legler (RETIRED) archtester gentoo-dev Security 2010-03-05 08:13:24 UTC 
GLSA vote: NO.
Comment 16 Tobias Heinlein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-03-05 21:24:14 UTC 
NO too, closing.