oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12863

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12863
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12863
Title: DSA-1870-1 pidgin -- insufficient input validation
Description: Federico Muttis discovered that libpurple, the shared library that adds support for various instant messaging networks to the pidgin IM client, is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow. This issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-2927 and CVE-2009-1376. An attacker can exploit this by sending two consecutive SLP packets to a victim via MSN. The first packet is used to create an SLP message object with an offset of zero, the second packet then contains a crafted offset which hits the vulnerable code originally fixed in CVE-2008-2927 and CVE-2009-1376 and allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code. Note: Users with the "Allow only the users below" setting are not vulnerable to this attack. If you can't install the below updates you may want to set this via Tools->Privacy. For the stable distribution, this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.3-4lenny3. For the testing distribution, this problem will be fixed soon. For the unstable distribution, this problem has been fixed in version 2.5.9-1. We recommend that you upgrade your pidgin packages.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-1870-1
CVE-2009-2694
CVE-2008-2927
CVE-2009-1376
Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 5.0
Product(s): pidgin
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Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6513
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6513
Title: Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 is installed
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny) is installed
Family: unix Class: inventory
Reference(s): cpe:/o:debian:debian_gnu/linux:5.0
Version: 7
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 5.0
Product(s):
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oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12863