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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.10 : pidgin vulnerabilities (USN-2100-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 72386

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

Thijs Alkemade and Robert Vehse discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled the Yahoo! protocol. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Pidgin to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2012-6152)

Jaime Breva Ribes discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled the XMPP protocol. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Pidgin to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2013-6477)

It was discovered that Pidgin incorrecly handled long URLs. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Pidgin to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2013-6478)

Jacob Appelbaum discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled certain HTTP responses. A malicious remote server or a man in the middle could use this issue to cause Pidgin to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2013-6479)

Daniel Atallah discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled the Yahoo! protocol. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Pidgin to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2013-6481)

Fabian Yamaguchi and Christian Wressnegger discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled the MSN protocol. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Pidgin to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2013-6482)

Fabian Yamaguchi and Christian Wressnegger discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled XMPP iq replies. A remote attacker could use this issue to spoof messages. (CVE-2013-6483)

It was discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled STUN server responses. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Pidgin to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2013-6484)

Matt Jones discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled certain chunked HTTP responses. A malicious remote server or a man in the middle could use this issue to cause Pidgin to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2013-6485)

Yves Younan and Ryan Pentney discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled certain Gadu-Gadu HTTP messages. A malicious remote server or a man in the middle could use this issue to cause Pidgin to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2013-6487)

Yves Younan and Pawel Janic discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled MXit emoticons. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Pidgin to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2013-6489)

Yves Younan discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled SIMPLE headers.
A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Pidgin to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2013-6490)

Daniel Atallah discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled IRC argument parsing. A malicious remote server or a man in the middle could use this issue to cause Pidgin to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2014-0020).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected libpurple0 and / or pidgin packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/2100-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 72386

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2100-1.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/7/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpurple0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:pidgin, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.10

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/6/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/6/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-6152, CVE-2013-6477, CVE-2013-6478, CVE-2013-6479, CVE-2013-6481, CVE-2013-6482, CVE-2013-6483, CVE-2013-6484, CVE-2013-6485, CVE-2013-6487, CVE-2013-6489, CVE-2013-6490, CVE-2014-0020

BID: 65188, 65192, 65195, 65243, 65492

USN: 2100-1