Debian: DSA-3620-1: pidgin security update

Date 15 Jul 2016

Category Debian Linux Distribution - Security Advisories

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Posted By LinuxSecurity Advisories

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

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3620-1 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso
July 15, 2016 https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : pidgin
CVE ID : CVE-2016-2365 CVE-2016-2366 CVE-2016-2367 CVE-2016-2368
CVE-2016-2369 CVE-2016-2370 CVE-2016-2371 CVE-2016-2372
CVE-2016-2373 CVE-2016-2374 CVE-2016-2375 CVE-2016-2376
CVE-2016-2377 CVE-2016-2378 CVE-2016-2380 CVE-2016-4323

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.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/

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