SciLinux: CVE-2009-2694 Critical: Pidgin Input Validation Flaw

Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:04:30 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA Critical: pidgin on SL3.x, SL4.x,
 SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Critical: pidgin security update
Issue date:	2009-08-18
CVE Names:	CVE-2009-2694

CVE-2009-2694 pidgin: insufficient input validation in
msn_slplink_process_msg()

Federico Muttis of Core Security Technologies discovered a flaw in
Pidgin's MSN protocol handler. If a user received a malicious MSN
message, it was possible to execute arbitrary code with the permissions
of the user running Pidgin. (CVE-2009-2694)

Pidgin must be restarted for this update to take effect.

SL 3.0.x

 SRPMS:
pidgin-1.5.1-4.el3.src.rpm
 i386:
pidgin-1.5.1-4.el3.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
pidgin-1.5.1-4.el3.x86_64.rpm

SL 4.x

 SRPMS:
pidgin-2.5.9-1.el4.src.rpm
 i386:
finch-2.5.9-1.el4.i386.rpm
finch-devel-2.5.9-1.el4.i386.rpm
libpurple-2.5.9-1.el4.i386.rpm
libpurple-devel-2.5.9-1.el4.i386.rpm
libpurple-perl-2.5.9-1.el4.i386.rpm
libpurple-tcl-2.5.9-1.el4.i386.rpm
pidgin-2.5.9-1.el4.i386.rpm
pidgin-devel-2.5.9-1.el4.i386.rpm
pidgin-perl-2.5.9-1.el4.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
finch-2.5.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
finch-devel-2.5.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
libpurple-2.5.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
libpurple-devel-2.5.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
libpurple-perl-2.5.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
libpurple-tcl-2.5.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
pidgin-2.5.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
pidgin-devel-2.5.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
pidgin-perl-2.5.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
pidgin-2.5.9-1.el5.src.rpm
 i386:
finch-2.5.9-1.el5.i386.rpm
finch-devel-2.5.9-1.el5.i386.rpm
libpurple-2.5.9-1.el5.i386.rpm
libpurple-devel-2.5.9-1.el5.i386.rpm
libpurple-perl-2.5.9-1.el5.i386.rpm
libpurple-tcl-2.5.9-1.el5.i386.rpm
pidgin-2.5.9-1.el5.i386.rpm
pidgin-devel-2.5.9-1.el5.i386.rpm
pidgin-perl-2.5.9-1.el5.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
finch-2.5.9-1.el5.i386.rpm
finch-2.5.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
finch-devel-2.5.9-1.el5.i386.rpm
finch-devel-2.5.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
libpurple-2.5.9-1.el5.i386.rpm
libpurple-2.5.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
libpurple-devel-2.5.9-1.el5.i386.rpm
libpurple-devel-2.5.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
libpurple-perl-2.5.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
libpurple-tcl-2.5.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
pidgin-2.5.9-1.el5.i386.rpm
pidgin-2.5.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
pidgin-devel-2.5.9-1.el5.i386.rpm
pidgin-devel-2.5.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
pidgin-perl-2.5.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson