Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title pidgin security update
Informations
Name DSA-3620 First vendor Publication 2016-07-15
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2016-07-15
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 1

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Yves Younan of Cisco Talos discovered several vulnerabilities in the MXit protocol support in pidgin, a multi-protocol instant messaging client. A remote attacker can take advantage of these flaws to cause a denial of service (application crash), overwrite files, information disclosure, or potentially to execute arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 2.11.0-0+deb8u1.

For the testing distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 2.11.0-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 2.11.0-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your pidgin packages.

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3620

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
40 % CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read
20 % CWE-200 Information Exposure
20 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
10 % CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference
5 % CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write (CWE/SANS Top 25)
5 % CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 67
Os 3
Os 1

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2016-12-29 Pidgin MXIT file transfer length memory disclosure attempt
RuleID : 40876 - Revision : 2 - Type : SERVER-OTHER
2016-06-07 Pidgin MXIT message length overflow attempt
RuleID : 39151 - Revision : 3 - Type : SERVER-OTHER
2016-06-07 Pidgin MXIT negative message length underflow attempt
RuleID : 39150 - Revision : 3 - Type : SERVER-OTHER
2016-05-12 Pidgin mxit_chunk_parse_cr out of bounds read attempt
RuleID : 38870 - Revision : 3 - Type : SERVER-OTHER
2016-05-12 Pidgin mxit_chunk_parse_get_avatar out of bounds read attempt
RuleID : 38867 - Revision : 3 - Type : SERVER-OTHER
2016-04-21 Pidgin mxit_parse_cmd_suggestcontacts out of bounds read attempt
RuleID : 38583 - Revision : 3 - Type : SERVER-OTHER
2016-04-21 Pidgin multimx_message_received out of bounds read attempt
RuleID : 38578 - Revision : 3 - Type : SERVER-OTHER
2016-04-19 Pidgin MXIT protocol handling splash_remove directory traversal attempt
RuleID : 38551 - Revision : 3 - Type : SERVER-OTHER
2016-04-19 Pidgin MXIT protocol handling splash_remove directory traversal attempt
RuleID : 38550 - Revision : 3 - Type : SERVER-OTHER
2016-04-19 Pidgin mxit_parse_cmd_extprofile out of bounds read attempt
RuleID : 38549 - Revision : 3 - Type : SERVER-OTHER
2016-04-19 Pidgin MXIT protocol handling null pointer dereference attempt
RuleID : 38548 - Revision : 3 - Type : SERVER-OTHER
2016-04-19 Pidgin MXIT table markup command out of bounds read attempt
RuleID : 38547 - Revision : 3 - Type : SERVER-OTHER
2016-04-19 Pidgin MXIT table markup command out of bounds read attempt
RuleID : 38546 - Revision : 3 - Type : SERVER-OTHER
2016-04-19 Pidgin mxit_update_contact out of bounds read attempt
RuleID : 38545 - Revision : 3 - Type : SERVER-OTHER
2016-03-29 Pidgin MXIT is operation null pointer dereference attempt
RuleID : 38345 - Revision : 3 - Type : SERVER-OTHER
2016-03-29 Pidgin MXIT is operation null pointer dereference attempt
RuleID : 38344 - Revision : 3 - Type : SERVER-OTHER

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2017-01-17 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201701-38.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-07-18 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3620.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-07-13 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-3031-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-07-05 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-542.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-06-23 Name : An instant messaging client installed on the remote host is affected by multi...
File : pidgin_2_11_0.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2017-01-10 21:23:57
  • Multiple Updates
2017-01-10 09:26:25
  • Multiple Updates
2017-01-09 21:25:30
  • Multiple Updates
2017-01-07 05:23:54
  • Multiple Updates
2016-07-22 13:38:25
  • Multiple Updates
2016-07-16 05:22:33
  • First insertion