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Gentoo: GLSA-201405-22 High: Pidgin Code Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey May 18, 2014
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Various vulnerabilities in Pidgin may lead to remote code execution risks. It's advisable to upgrade in order to address severe security concerns on Gentoo systems.
Multiple vulnerabilities in Pidgin may allow execution of arbitrary code.

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Pidgin. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo high severity code execution threat mitigation Pidgin

Resolution

All Pidgin users on HPPA or users of GNOME 3.8 and later on AMD64 or X86 should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-im/pidgin-2.10.9-r1"
All Pidgin users on ALPHA, PPC, PPC64, SPARC, and users of GNOME before 3.8 on AMD64 and X86 should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-im/pidgin-2.10.9"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2012-6152 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-6152 [ 2 ] CVE-2013-0271 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-0271 [ 3 ] CVE-2013-0272 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-0272 [ 4 ] CVE-2013-0273 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-0273 [ 5 ] CVE-2013-0274 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-0274 [ 6 ] CVE-2013-6477 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-6477 [ 7 ] CVE-2013-6478 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-6478 [ 8 ] CVE-2013-6479 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-6479 [ 9 ] CVE-2013-6481 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-6481 [ 10 ] CVE-2013-6482 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-6482 [ 11 ] CVE-2013-6483 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-6483 [ 12 ] CVE-2013-6484 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-6484 [ 13 ] CVE-2013-6485 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvena...

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Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201405-22
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: High
Title: Pidgin: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: May 18, 2014
Bugs: #457580, #499596
ID: 201405-22

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo high severity code execution threat mitigation Pidgin

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities in Pidgin may allow execution of arbitrary code.

Background

Pidgin is a GTK Instant Messenger client for a variety of instant messaging protocols.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-im/pidgin < 2.10.9 >= 2.10.9 *>= 2.10.9-r1

Impact

===== A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the Pidgin process, cause a Denial of Service condition, overwrite files, or spoof traffic.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.