Vulnerabilities > CVE-2008-2955 - Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Pidgin 2.4.1
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
MEDIUM Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
Pidgin 2.4.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long filename that contains certain characters, as demonstrated using an MSN message that triggers the crash in the msn_slplink_process_msg function.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 1 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
- Server Side Include (SSI) Injection An attacker can use Server Side Include (SSI) Injection to send code to a web application that then gets executed by the web server. Doing so enables the attacker to achieve similar results to Cross Site Scripting, viz., arbitrary code execution and information disclosure, albeit on a more limited scale, since the SSI directives are nowhere near as powerful as a full-fledged scripting language. Nonetheless, the attacker can conveniently gain access to sensitive files, such as password files, and execute shell commands.
- Cross Zone Scripting An attacker is able to cause a victim to load content into their web-browser that bypasses security zone controls and gain access to increased privileges to execute scripting code or other web objects such as unsigned ActiveX controls or applets. This is a privilege elevation attack targeted at zone-based web-browser security. In a zone-based model, pages belong to one of a set of zones corresponding to the level of privilege assigned to that page. Pages in an untrusted zone would have a lesser level of access to the system and/or be restricted in the types of executable content it was allowed to invoke. In a cross-zone scripting attack, a page that should be assigned to a less privileged zone is granted the privileges of a more trusted zone. This can be accomplished by exploiting bugs in the browser, exploiting incorrect configuration in the zone controls, through a cross-site scripting attack that causes the attackers' content to be treated as coming from a more trusted page, or by leveraging some piece of system functionality that is accessible from both the trusted and less trusted zone. This attack differs from "Restful Privilege Escalation" in that the latter correlates to the inadequate securing of RESTful access methods (such as HTTP DELETE) on the server, while cross-zone scripting attacks the concept of security zones as implemented by a browser.
- Cross Site Scripting through Log Files An attacker may leverage a system weakness where logs are susceptible to log injection to insert scripts into the system's logs. If these logs are later viewed by an administrator through a thin administrative interface and the log data is not properly HTML encoded before being written to the page, the attackers' scripts stored in the log will be executed in the administrative interface with potentially serious consequences. This attack pattern is really a combination of two other attack patterns: log injection and stored cross site scripting.
- Command Line Execution through SQL Injection An attacker uses standard SQL injection methods to inject data into the command line for execution. This could be done directly through misuse of directives such as MSSQL_xp_cmdshell or indirectly through injection of data into the database that would be interpreted as shell commands. Sometime later, an unscrupulous backend application (or could be part of the functionality of the same application) fetches the injected data stored in the database and uses this data as command line arguments without performing proper validation. The malicious data escapes that data plane by spawning new commands to be executed on the host.
Exploit-Db
| description | Pidgin 2.4.2 'msn_slplink_process_msg()' Denial of Service Vulnerability. CVE-2008-2955. Dos exploit for linux platform |
| id | EDB-ID:32749 |
| last seen | 2016-02-03 |
| modified | 2009-01-26 |
| published | 2009-01-26 |
| reporter | Juan Pablo Lopez Yacubian |
| source | https://www.exploit-db.com/download/32749/ |
| title | Pidgin <= 2.4.2 - 'msn_slplink_process_msg' Denial of Service Vulnerability |
Nessus
NASL family Mandriva Local Security Checks NASL id MANDRIVA_MDVSA-2009-025.NASL description The NSS plugin in libpurple in Pidgin 2.4.1 does not verify SSL certificates, which makes it easier for remote attackers to trick a user into accepting an invalid server certificate for a spoofed service. (CVE-2008-3532) Pidgin 2.4.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long filename that contains certain characters, as demonstrated using an MSN message that triggers the crash in the msn_slplink_process_msg function. (CVE-2008-2955) The UPnP functionality in Pidgin 2.0.0, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to trigger the download of arbitrary files and cause a denial of service (memory or disk consumption) via a UDP packet that specifies an arbitrary URL. (CVE-2008-2957) The updated packages have been patched to fix these issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 36534 published 2009-04-23 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/36534 title Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : pidgin (MDVSA-2009:025) code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:025. # The text itself is copyright (C) Mandriva S.A. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(36534); script_version ("1.14"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:32:51"); script_cve_id("CVE-2008-2955", "CVE-2008-2957", "CVE-2008-3532"); script_xref(name:"MDVSA", value:"2009:025"); script_name(english:"Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : pidgin (MDVSA-2009:025)"); script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value: "The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "The NSS plugin in libpurple in Pidgin 2.4.1 does not verify SSL certificates, which makes it easier for remote attackers to trick a user into accepting an invalid server certificate for a spoofed service. (CVE-2008-3532) Pidgin 2.4.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long filename that contains certain characters, as demonstrated using an MSN message that triggers the crash in the msn_slplink_process_msg function. (CVE-2008-2955) The UPnP functionality in Pidgin 2.0.0, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to trigger the download of arbitrary files and cause a denial of service (memory or disk consumption) via a UDP packet that specifies an arbitrary URL. (CVE-2008-2957) The updated packages have been patched to fix these issues." ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages."); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"); script_cwe_id(20, 310); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:finch"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64finch0"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64purple-devel"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64purple0"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libfinch0"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libpurple-devel"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libpurple0"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:pidgin"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:pidgin-bonjour"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:pidgin-client"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:pidgin-gevolution"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:pidgin-i18n"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:pidgin-meanwhile"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:pidgin-mono"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:pidgin-perl"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:pidgin-silc"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:pidgin-tcl"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2008.1"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2009/01/22"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2009/04/23"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc."); script_family(english:"Mandriva Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/cpu", "Host/Mandrake/release", "Host/Mandrake/rpm-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); if (!get_kb_item("Host/Mandrake/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Mandriva / Mandake Linux"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/Mandrake/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if (cpu !~ "^(amd64|i[3-6]86|x86_64)$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Mandriva / Mandrake Linux", cpu); flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2008.1", reference:"finch-2.4.1-2.3mdv2008.1", yank:"mdv")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2008.1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"lib64finch0-2.4.1-2.3mdv2008.1", yank:"mdv")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2008.1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"lib64purple-devel-2.4.1-2.3mdv2008.1", yank:"mdv")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2008.1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"lib64purple0-2.4.1-2.3mdv2008.1", yank:"mdv")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2008.1", cpu:"i386", reference:"libfinch0-2.4.1-2.3mdv2008.1", yank:"mdv")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2008.1", cpu:"i386", reference:"libpurple-devel-2.4.1-2.3mdv2008.1", yank:"mdv")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2008.1", cpu:"i386", reference:"libpurple0-2.4.1-2.3mdv2008.1", yank:"mdv")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2008.1", reference:"pidgin-2.4.1-2.3mdv2008.1", yank:"mdv")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2008.1", reference:"pidgin-bonjour-2.4.1-2.3mdv2008.1", yank:"mdv")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2008.1", reference:"pidgin-client-2.4.1-2.3mdv2008.1", yank:"mdv")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2008.1", reference:"pidgin-gevolution-2.4.1-2.3mdv2008.1", yank:"mdv")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2008.1", reference:"pidgin-i18n-2.4.1-2.3mdv2008.1", yank:"mdv")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2008.1", reference:"pidgin-meanwhile-2.4.1-2.3mdv2008.1", yank:"mdv")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2008.1", reference:"pidgin-mono-2.4.1-2.3mdv2008.1", yank:"mdv")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2008.1", reference:"pidgin-perl-2.4.1-2.3mdv2008.1", yank:"mdv")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2008.1", reference:"pidgin-silc-2.4.1-2.3mdv2008.1", yank:"mdv")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2008.1", reference:"pidgin-tcl-2.4.1-2.3mdv2008.1", yank:"mdv")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get()); else security_warning(0); exit(0); } else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_FINCH-5573.NASL description - specially crafted MSN SLP messages could cause an integer overflow in pidgin. Attackers could potentially exploit that to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2008-2927) - overly long file names in MSN file transfers could crash pidgin. (CVE-2008-2955) - SSL certifcates were not verfied. Therefore piding didn last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 51722 published 2011-01-27 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2011-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/51722 title SuSE 10 Security Update : pidgin, gaim and finch (ZYPP Patch Number 5573) NASL family Gentoo Local Security Checks NASL id GENTOO_GLSA-200901-13.NASL description The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200901-13 (Pidgin: Multiple vulnerabilities) Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Pidgin and the libpurple library: A participant to the TippingPoint ZDI reported multiple integer overflows in the msn_slplink_process_msg() function in the MSN protocol implementation (CVE-2008-2927). Juan Pablo Lopez Yacubian is credited for reporting a use-after-free flaw in msn_slplink_process_msg() in the MSN protocol implementation (CVE-2008-2955). The included UPnP server does not limit the size of data to be downloaded for UPnP service discovery, according to a report by Andrew Hunt and Christian Grothoff (CVE-2008-2957). Josh Triplett discovered that the NSS plugin for libpurple does not properly verify SSL certificates (CVE-2008-3532). Impact : A remote attacker could send specially crafted messages or files using the MSN protocol which could result in the execution of arbitrary code or crash Pidgin. NOTE: Successful exploitation might require the victim last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 35432 published 2009-01-21 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/35432 title GLSA-200901-13 : Pidgin: Multiple vulnerabilities NASL family Oracle Linux Local Security Checks NASL id ORACLELINUX_ELSA-2008-1023.NASL description From Red Hat Security Advisory 2008:1023 : Updated Pidgin packages that fix several security issues and bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Pidgin is a multi-protocol Internet Messaging client. A denial-of-service flaw was found in Pidgin last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 67774 published 2013-07-12 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/67774 title Oracle Linux 4 : pidgin (ELSA-2008-1023) NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-886-1.NASL description It was discovered that Pidgin did not properly handle certain topic messages in the IRC protocol handler. If a user were tricked into connecting to a malicious IRC server, an attacker could cause Pidgin to crash, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, Ubuntu 8.10 and Ubuntu 9.04. (CVE-2009-2703) It was discovered that Pidgin did not properly enforce the last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 44057 published 2010-01-19 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2010-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2010-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/44057 title Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 / 9.10 : pidgin vulnerabilities (USN-886-1) NASL family Red Hat Local Security Checks NASL id REDHAT-RHSA-2008-1023.NASL description Updated Pidgin packages that fix several security issues and bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Pidgin is a multi-protocol Internet Messaging client. A denial-of-service flaw was found in Pidgin last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 35181 published 2008-12-16 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2008-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/35181 title RHEL 4 / 5 : pidgin (RHSA-2008:1023) NASL family CentOS Local Security Checks NASL id CENTOS_RHSA-2008-1023.NASL description Updated Pidgin packages that fix several security issues and bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Pidgin is a multi-protocol Internet Messaging client. A denial-of-service flaw was found in Pidgin last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 35260 published 2008-12-23 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2008-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/35260 title CentOS 4 / 5 : pidgin (CESA-2008:1023) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_FINCH-5592.NASL description - specially crafted MSN SLP messages could cause an integer overflow in pidgin. Attackers could potentially exploit that to execute arbitrary code (CVE-2008-2927). - overly long file names in MSN file transfers could crash pidgin (CVE-2008-2955). - SSL certifcates were not verfied. Therefore piding didn last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 34199 published 2008-09-14 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2008-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/34199 title openSUSE 10 Security Update : finch (finch-5592) NASL family Scientific Linux Local Security Checks NASL id SL_20081215_PIDGIN_ON_SL4_X.NASL description A denial-of-service flaw was found in Pidgin last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 60505 published 2012-08-01 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/60505 title Scientific Linux Security Update : pidgin on SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64 NASL family Mandriva Local Security Checks NASL id MANDRIVA_MDVSA-2009-321.NASL description Security vulnerabilities has been identified and fixed in pidgin : The NSS plugin in libpurple in Pidgin 2.4.1 does not verify SSL certificates, which makes it easier for remote attackers to trick a user into accepting an invalid server certificate for a spoofed service. (CVE-2008-3532) Pidgin 2.4.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long filename that contains certain characters, as demonstrated using an MSN message that triggers the crash in the msn_slplink_process_msg function. (CVE-2008-2955) The UPnP functionality in Pidgin 2.0.0, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to trigger the download of arbitrary files and cause a denial of service (memory or disk consumption) via a UDP packet that specifies an arbitrary URL. (CVE-2008-2957) Buffer overflow in the XMPP SOCKS5 bytestream server in Pidgin (formerly Gaim) before 2.5.6 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving an outbound XMPP file transfer. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third-party information (CVE-2009-1373). Buffer overflow in the decrypt_out function in Pidgin (formerly Gaim) before 2.5.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a QQ packet (CVE-2009-1374). The PurpleCircBuffer implementation in Pidgin (formerly Gaim) before 2.5.6 does not properly maintain a certain buffer, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via vectors involving the (1) XMPP or (2) Sametime protocol (CVE-2009-1375). Multiple integer overflows in the msn_slplink_process_msg functions in the MSN protocol handler in (1) libpurple/protocols/msn/slplink.c and (2) libpurple/protocols/msnp9/slplink.c in Pidgin (formerly Gaim) before 2.5.6 on 32-bit platforms allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed SLP message with a crafted offset value, leading to buffer overflows. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-2927 (CVE-2009-1376). The OSCAR protocol implementation in Pidgin before 2.5.8 misinterprets the ICQWebMessage message type as the ICQSMS message type, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted ICQ web message that triggers allocation of a large amount of memory (CVE-2009-1889). The msn_slplink_process_msg function in libpurple/protocols/msn/slplink.c in libpurple, as used in Pidgin (formerly Gaim) before 2.5.9 and Adium 1.3.5 and earlier, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) by sending multiple crafted SLP (aka MSNSLP) messages to trigger an overwrite of an arbitrary memory location. NOTE: this issue reportedly exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2009-1376 (CVE-2009-2694). Unspecified vulnerability in Pidgin 2.6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a link in a Yahoo IM (CVE-2009-3025) protocols/jabber/auth.c in libpurple in Pidgin 2.6.0, and possibly other versions, does not follow the require TLS/SSL preference when connecting to older Jabber servers that do not follow the XMPP specification, which causes libpurple to connect to the server without the expected encryption and allows remote attackers to sniff sessions (CVE-2009-3026). 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-2009-2703). 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-2009-3083). 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-2009-3084). 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 (CVE-2009-3085). This update provides pidgin 2.6.2, which is not vulnerable to these issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 43024 published 2009-12-07 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/43024 title Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : pidgin (MDVSA-2009:321) NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-675-1.NASL description It was discovered that Pidgin did not properly handle certain malformed messages in the MSN protocol handler. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted message and possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges. (CVE-2008-2927) It was discovered that Pidgin did not properly handle file transfers containing a long filename and special characters in the MSN protocol handler. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted filename in a file transfer request and cause Pidgin to crash, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2008-2955) It was discovered that Pidgin did not impose resource limitations in the UPnP service. A remote attacker could cause Pidgin to download arbitrary files and cause a denial of service from memory or disk space exhaustion. (CVE-2008-2957) It was discovered that Pidgin did not validate SSL certificates when using a secure connection. If a remote attacker were able to perform a man-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could be exploited to view sensitive information. This update alters Pidgin behaviour by asking users to confirm the validity of a certificate upon initial login. (CVE-2008-3532). 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. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 36899 published 2009-04-23 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2008-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2009-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/36899 title Ubuntu 7.10 / 8.04 LTS : pidgin vulnerabilities (USN-675-1) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_11_0_FINCH-080903.NASL description - specially crafted MSN SLP messages could cause an integer overflow in pidgin. Attackers could potentially exploit that to execute arbitrary code (CVE-2008-2927). - overly long file names in MSN file transfers could crash pidgin (CVE-2008-2955). - SSL certifcates were not verfied. Therefore piding didn last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 39959 published 2009-07-21 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/39959 title openSUSE Security Update : finch (finch-188)
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accepted 2013-04-29T04:02:04.022-04:00 class vulnerability contributors name Aharon Chernin organization SCAP.com, LLC name Dragos Prisaca organization G2, Inc.
definition_extensions comment The operating system installed on the system is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11831 comment CentOS Linux 4.x oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16636 comment Oracle Linux 4.x oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15990 comment The operating system installed on the system is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11414 comment The operating system installed on the system is CentOS Linux 5.x oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15802 comment Oracle Linux 5.x oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15459
description Pidgin 2.4.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long filename that contains certain characters, as demonstrated using an MSN message that triggers the crash in the msn_slplink_process_msg function. family unix id oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10131 status accepted submitted 2010-07-09T03:56:16-04:00 title Pidgin 2.4.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long filename that contains certain characters, as demonstrated using an MSN message that triggers the crash in the msn_slplink_process_msg function. version 28 accepted 2013-09-30T04:00:51.214-04:00 class vulnerability contributors name Shane Shaffer organization G2, Inc. definition_extensions comment Pidgin is installed oval oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12366 description Pidgin 2.4.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long filename that contains certain characters, as demonstrated using an MSN message that triggers the crash in the msn_slplink_process_msg function. family windows id oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18050 status accepted submitted 2013-08-16T15:36:10.221-04:00 title Pidgin 2.4.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long filename that contains certain characters, as demonstrated using an MSN message that triggers the crash in the msn_slplink_process_msg function version 4
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References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30881
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32859
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33102
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3966
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-493.htm
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- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1023.html
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