Debian: DSA-3620-1: pidgin security update
Debian: DSA-3620-1: pidgin security update
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
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ Mailing list: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.