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Debian: DSA-3055-1 Moderate: Pidgin Memory Disclosure Crash Risk

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Calendar Grey October 23, 2014
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Enhance Pidgin on Debian to rectify various vulnerabilities, comprising memory leakage and denial of service complications.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Pidgin, a multi-protocol instant messaging client: CVE-2014-3694

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Pidgin, a multi-protocol
instant messaging client:

CVE-2014-3694

It was discovered that the SSL/TLS plugins failed to validate the
basic constraints extension in intermediate CA certificates.

CVE-2014-3695

Yves Younan and Richard Johnson discovered that emotictons with
overly large length values could crash Pidgin.

CVE-2014-3696

Yves Younan and Richard Johnson discovered that malformed Groupwise
messages could crash Pidgin.

CVE-2014-3698

Thijs Alkemade and Paul Aurich discovered that malformed XMPP
messages could result in memory disclosure.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.10.10-1~deb7u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.10.10-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your pidgin packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http...

Read the Full Advisory

Package: pidgin
CVE ID: CVE-2014-3694 CVE-2014-3695 CVE-2014-3696 CVE-2014-3698

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