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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