Vulnerabilities > CVE-2011-1091 - Unspecified vulnerability in Pidgin
Attack vector
UNKNOWN Attack complexity
UNKNOWN Privileges required
UNKNOWN Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN Integrity impact
UNKNOWN Availability impact
UNKNOWN pidgin
nessus
Summary
libymsg.c in the Yahoo! protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin 2.6.0 through 2.7.10 allows (1) remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a malformed YMSG notification packet, and allows (2) remote Yahoo! servers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a malformed YMSG SMS message.
Vulnerable Configurations
Nessus
NASL family Scientific Linux Local Security Checks NASL id SL_20111013_PIDGIN_ON_SL4_X.NASL description Pidgin is an instant messaging program which can log in to multiple accounts on multiple instant messaging networks simultaneously. An input sanitization flaw was found in the way the Pidgin SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) protocol plug-in escaped certain UTF-8 characters. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash Pidgin via a specially crafted SILC message. (CVE-2011-3594) Multiple NULL pointer dereference flaws were found in the way the Pidgin Yahoo! Messenger Protocol plug-in handled malformed YMSG packets. A remote attacker could use these flaws to crash Pidgin via a specially crafted notification message. (CVE-2011-1091) All Pidgin users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues. Pidgin must be restarted for this update to take effect. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 61153 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/61153 title Scientific Linux Security Update : pidgin on SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64 NASL family Red Hat Local Security Checks NASL id REDHAT-RHSA-2011-1371.NASL description Updated pidgin packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section. Pidgin is an instant messaging program which can log in to multiple accounts on multiple instant messaging networks simultaneously. An input sanitization flaw was found in the way the Pidgin SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) protocol plug-in escaped certain UTF-8 characters. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash Pidgin via a specially crafted SILC message. (CVE-2011-3594) Multiple NULL pointer dereference flaws were found in the way the Pidgin Yahoo! Messenger Protocol plug-in handled malformed YMSG packets. A remote attacker could use these flaws to crash Pidgin via a specially crafted notification message. (CVE-2011-1091) Red Hat would like to thank the Pidgin project for reporting CVE-2011-1091. Upstream acknowledges Marius Wachtler as the original reporter of CVE-2011-1091. All Pidgin users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues. Pidgin must be restarted for this update to take effect. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 56505 published 2011-10-14 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2011-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/56505 title RHEL 4 / 5 : pidgin (RHSA-2011:1371) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_11_FINCH-111226.NASL description Remote users could have crashed pidgin via ICQ, SILC, XMPP and Yahoo protocols (CVE-2011-4601 / CVE-2011-4603 / CVE-2011-4602 / CVE-2011-1091). This has been fixed. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 57465 published 2012-01-10 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/57465 title SuSE 11.1 Security Update : pidgin (SAT Patch Number 5586) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_11_3_FINCH-111219.NASL description Remote users could crash pidgin via ICQ, SILC, XMPP and Yahoo protocols (CVE-2011-4601, CVE-2011-4603, CVE-2011-4602, CVE-2011-1091). last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 75490 published 2014-06-13 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/75490 title openSUSE Security Update : finch (openSUSE-SU-2012:0066-1) NASL family Oracle Linux Local Security Checks NASL id ORACLELINUX_ELSA-2011-1371.NASL description From Red Hat Security Advisory 2011:1371 : Updated pidgin packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section. Pidgin is an instant messaging program which can log in to multiple accounts on multiple instant messaging networks simultaneously. An input sanitization flaw was found in the way the Pidgin SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) protocol plug-in escaped certain UTF-8 characters. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash Pidgin via a specially crafted SILC message. (CVE-2011-3594) Multiple NULL pointer dereference flaws were found in the way the Pidgin Yahoo! Messenger Protocol plug-in handled malformed YMSG packets. A remote attacker could use these flaws to crash Pidgin via a specially crafted notification message. (CVE-2011-1091) Red Hat would like to thank the Pidgin project for reporting CVE-2011-1091. Upstream acknowledges Marius Wachtler as the original reporter of CVE-2011-1091. All Pidgin users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues. Pidgin must be restarted for this update to take effect. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 68369 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/68369 title Oracle Linux 4 : pidgin (ELSA-2011-1371) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_11_4_FINCH-111219.NASL description Remote users could crash pidgin via ICQ, SILC, XMPP and Yahoo protocols (CVE-2011-4601, CVE-2011-4603, CVE-2011-4602, CVE-2011-1091). last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 75830 published 2014-06-13 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/75830 title openSUSE Security Update : finch (openSUSE-SU-2012:0066-1) NASL family Scientific Linux Local Security Checks NASL id SL_20110519_PIDGIN_ON_SL6_X.NASL description Pidgin is an instant messaging program which can log in to multiple accounts on multiple instant messaging networks simultaneously. Multiple NULL pointer dereference flaws were found in the way the Pidgin Yahoo! Messenger Protocol plug-in handled malformed YMSG packets. A remote attacker could use these flaws to crash Pidgin via a specially crafted notification message. (CVE-2011-1091) Red Hat would like to thank the Pidgin project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Marius Wachtler as the original reporter. This update also fixes the following bugs : - Previous versions of the pidgin package did not properly clear certain data structures used in libpurple/cipher.c when attempting to free them. Partial information could potentially be extracted from the incorrectly cleared regions of the previously freed memory. With this update, data structures are properly cleared when freed. (BZ#684685) - This erratum upgrades Pidgin to upstream version 2.7.9. For a list of all changes addressed in this upgrade, refer to http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog (BZ#616917) - Some incomplete translations for the kn_IN and ta_IN locales have been corrected. (BZ#633860, BZ#640170) Users of pidgin should upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these issues. Pidgin must be restarted for this update to take effect. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 61045 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/61045 title Scientific Linux Security Update : pidgin on SL6.x i386/x86_64 NASL family Red Hat Local Security Checks NASL id REDHAT-RHSA-2011-0616.NASL description Updated pidgin packages that fix multiple security issues and various bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section. Pidgin is an instant messaging program which can log in to multiple accounts on multiple instant messaging networks simultaneously. Multiple NULL pointer dereference flaws were found in the way the Pidgin Yahoo! Messenger Protocol plug-in handled malformed YMSG packets. A remote attacker could use these flaws to crash Pidgin via a specially crafted notification message. (CVE-2011-1091) Red Hat would like to thank the Pidgin project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Marius Wachtler as the original reporter. This update also fixes the following bugs : * Previous versions of the pidgin package did not properly clear certain data structures used in libpurple/cipher.c when attempting to free them. Partial information could potentially be extracted from the incorrectly cleared regions of the previously freed memory. With this update, data structures are properly cleared when freed. (BZ#684685) * This erratum upgrades Pidgin to upstream version 2.7.9. For a list of all changes addressed in this upgrade, refer to http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog (BZ#616917) * Some incomplete translations for the kn_IN and ta_IN locales have been corrected. (BZ#633860, BZ#640170) Users of pidgin should upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these issues. Pidgin must be restarted for this update to take effect. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 54598 published 2011-05-20 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2011-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/54598 title RHEL 6 : pidgin (RHSA-2011:0616) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2011-3150.NASL description New release 2.7.11 Full Upstream ChangeLog : http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora 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 52725 published 2011-03-21 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2011-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/52725 title Fedora 15 : pidgin-2.7.11-1.fc15 (2011-3150) NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-1273-1.NASL description Marius Wachtler discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled malformed YMSG messages in the Yahoo! protocol handler. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted message and cause Pidgin to crash, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and 10.10. (CVE-2011-1091) Marius Wachtler discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled HTTP 100 responses in the MSN protocol handler. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted message and cause Pidgin to crash, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-3184) Diego Bauche Madero discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled UTF-8 sequences in the SILC protocol handler. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted message and cause Pidgin to crash, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-3594). 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 56915 published 2011-11-22 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2011-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2011-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/56915 title Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 10.10 / 11.04 : pidgin vulnerabilities (USN-1273-1) NASL family CentOS Local Security Checks NASL id CENTOS_RHSA-2011-1371.NASL description Updated pidgin packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section. Pidgin is an instant messaging program which can log in to multiple accounts on multiple instant messaging networks simultaneously. An input sanitization flaw was found in the way the Pidgin SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) protocol plug-in escaped certain UTF-8 characters. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash Pidgin via a specially crafted SILC message. (CVE-2011-3594) Multiple NULL pointer dereference flaws were found in the way the Pidgin Yahoo! Messenger Protocol plug-in handled malformed YMSG packets. A remote attacker could use these flaws to crash Pidgin via a specially crafted notification message. (CVE-2011-1091) Red Hat would like to thank the Pidgin project for reporting CVE-2011-1091. Upstream acknowledges Marius Wachtler as the original reporter of CVE-2011-1091. All Pidgin users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues. Pidgin must be restarted for this update to take effect. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 56514 published 2011-10-17 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2011-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/56514 title CentOS 4 / 5 : pidgin (CESA-2011:1371) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2011-3132.NASL description New release 2.7.11 Full Upstream ChangeLog : http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora 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 52724 published 2011-03-21 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2011-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/52724 title Fedora 13 : pidgin-2.7.11-1.fc13 (2011-3132) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2011-3113.NASL description New release 2.7.11 Full Upstream ChangeLog : http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora 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 52665 published 2011-03-15 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2011-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/52665 title Fedora 14 : pidgin-2.7.11-1.fc14 (2011-3113) NASL family Mandriva Local Security Checks NASL id MANDRIVA_MDVSA-2011-050.NASL description Multiple vulnerabilities has been identified and fixed in pidgin : It was discovered that libpurple versions prior to 2.7.10 do not properly clear certain data structures used in libpurple/cipher.c prior to freeing. An attacker could potentially extract partial information from memory regions freed by libpurple. The Yahoo protocol plugin in libpurple versions 2.6.0 through 2.7.10 do not properly handle malformed YMSG packets, leading to NULL pointer dereferences and application crash (CVE-2011-1091). Packages for 2009.0 are provided as of the Extended Maintenance Program. Please visit this link to learn more: http://store.mandriva.com/product_info.php?cPath=149 products_id=490 This update provides pidgin 2.7.11, which is not vulnerable to these issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 52748 published 2011-03-22 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2011-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/52748 title Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : pidgin (MDVSA-2011:050) NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id SUSE_FINCH-7901.NASL description Remote users could have crashed crash pidgin via ICQ, SILC, XMPP and Yahoo protocols (CVE-2011-4601 / CVE-2011-4603 / CVE-2011-4602 / CVE-2011-1091). This has been fixed. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 57466 published 2012-01-10 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/57466 title SuSE 10 Security Update : pidgin (ZYPP Patch Number 7901) NASL family Slackware Local Security Checks NASL id SLACKWARE_SSA_2011-070-02.NASL description New pidgin packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, 13.1, and -current to fix security issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 52636 published 2011-03-14 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2011-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/52636 title Slackware 12.0 / 12.1 / 12.2 / 13.0 / 13.1 / current : pidgin (SSA:2011-070-02)
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accepted | 2013-09-30T04:01:10.904-04:00 | ||||
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description | libymsg.c in the Yahoo! protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin 2.6.0 through 2.7.10 allows (1) remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a malformed YMSG notification packet, and allows (2) remote Yahoo! servers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a malformed YMSG SMS message. | ||||
family | windows | ||||
id | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18402 | ||||
status | accepted | ||||
submitted | 2013-08-16T15:36:10.221-04:00 | ||||
title | libymsg.c in the Yahoo! protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin 2.6.0 through 2.7.10 allows (1) remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a malformed YMSG notification packet, and allows (2) remote Yahoo! servers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a malformed YMSG SMS message | ||||
version | 4 |
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References
- http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=51
- http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/a7c415abba1f5f01f79295337518837f73d99bb7
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46837
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=683031
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43695
- http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/diff/5cbe18129b6e7c660bc093f7e5e1414ceca17d04/with/a7c415abba1f5f01f79295337518837f73d99bb7/libpurple/protocols/yahoo/libymsg.c
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055874.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43721
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2011&m=slackware-security.466884
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0643
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0669
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0661
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0616.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0703
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056309.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1371.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/46376
- https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/13195955
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66055
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18402