Executive Summary

Summary
Title pidgin-knotify: Arbitrary code execution
Informations
Name GLSA-201402-27 First vendor Publication 2014-02-26
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2014-02-26
Severity (Vendor) High Revision N/A

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:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5.1 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity High
Cvss Expoit Score 4.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

A vulnerability in pidgin-knotify might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Background

pidgin-knotify is a Pidgin plug-in to display message notifications in KDE.

Description

pidgin-knotify does not properly sanitize shell metacharacters from received messages.

Impact

A remote attacker could send a specially crafted instant message, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the Pidgin process.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

Gentoo has discontinued support for pidgin-knotify. We recommend that users unmerge pidgin-knotify:
# emerge --unmerge "x11-plugins/pidgin-knotify"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2010-3088 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-3088

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201402-27.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201402-27.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-94 Failure to Control Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 4

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
68036 Pidgin pidgin-knotify Plugin src/pidgin-knotify.c notify() Function Shell Met...

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2014-02-27 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201402-27.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2014-02-28 13:21:17
  • Multiple Updates
2014-02-26 17:18:53
  • First insertion