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SUSE 11 SP2: SUSE-SU-2012:0890-1 Critical Pidgin Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey July 19, 2012
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SUSE Security Notification: Critical update released for pidgin, finch, and libpurple resolving severe buffer overflow vulnerability.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Summary

This update of pidgin fixes a stack-based buffer overflow in the MXit protocol which could have potentially been exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code in the context of the user running pidgin (CVE-2012-3374). Security Issue reference: * CVE-2012-3374 Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP2: zypper in -t patch sdksp1-finch-6534 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP1: zypper in -t patch sdksp1-finch-6534 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2: zypper in -t patch sledsp1-finch-6534 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP1:

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow critical software update SUSE Linux pidgin fix Finch

References

#770304

Cross- CVE-2012-3374

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP4

SLE SDK 10 SP4

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3374.html

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2012:0890-1
Rating: important

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow critical software update SUSE Linux pidgin fix Finch

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