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[RHSA-2014:0139-01] Moderate: pidgin security update

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Red Hat Security Advisory

 

Synopsis: Moderate: pidgin security update

Advisory ID: RHSA-2014:0139-01

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0139.html

Issue date: 2014-02-05

CVE Names: CVE-2012-6152 CVE-2013-6477 CVE-2013-6478

CVE-2013-6479 CVE-2013-6481 CVE-2013-6482

CVE-2013-6483 CVE-2013-6484 CVE-2013-6485

CVE-2013-6487 CVE-2013-6489 CVE-2013-6490

CVE-2014-0020

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1. Summary:

 

Updated pidgin packages that fix multiple security issues are now available

for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

 

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate

security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores,

which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability

from the CVE links in the References section.

 

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

 

RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6) - i386, ppc64, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

 

3. Description:

 

Pidgin is an instant messaging program which can log in to multiple

accounts on multiple instant messaging networks simultaneously.

 

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way Pidgin processed

certain HTTP responses. A malicious server could send a specially crafted

HTTP response, causing Pidgin to crash or potentially execute arbitrary

code with the permissions of the user running Pidgin. (CVE-2013-6485)

 

Multiple heap-based buffer overflow flaws were found in several protocol

plug-ins in Pidgin (Gadu-Gadu, MXit, SIMPLE). A malicious server could send

a specially crafted message, causing Pidgin to crash or potentially execute

arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running Pidgin.

(CVE-2013-6487, CVE-2013-6489, CVE-2013-6490)

 

Multiple denial of service flaws were found in several protocol plug-ins in

Pidgin (Yahoo!, XMPP, MSN, stun, IRC). A remote attacker could use these

flaws to crash Pidgin by sending a specially crafted message.

(CVE-2012-6152, CVE-2013-6477, CVE-2013-6481, CVE-2013-6482, CVE-2013-6484,

CVE-2014-0020)

 

It was found that the Pidgin XMPP protocol plug-in did not verify the

origin of "iq" replies. A remote attacker could use this flaw to spoof an

"iq" reply, which could lead to injection of fake data or cause Pidgin to

crash via a NULL pointer dereference. (CVE-2013-6483)

 

A flaw was found in the way Pidgin parsed certain HTTP response headers.

A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash Pidgin via a specially

crafted HTTP response header. (CVE-2013-6479)

 

It was found that Pidgin crashed when a mouse pointer was hovered over a

long URL. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash Pidgin by sending

a message containing a long URL string. (CVE-2013-6478)

 

Red Hat would like to thank the Pidgin project for reporting these issues.

Upstream acknowledges Thijs Alkemade, Robert Vehse, Jaime Breva Ribes,

Jacob Appelbaum of the Tor Project, Daniel Atallah, Fabian Yamaguchi and

Christian Wressnegger of the University of Goettingen, Matt Jones of

Volvent, and Yves Younan, Ryan Pentney, and Pawel Janic of Sourcefire VRT

as the original reporters of these issues.

 

All pidgin users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which

contain backported patches to correct these issues. Pidgin must be

restarted for this update to take effect.

 

4. Solution:

 

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata

relevant to your system have been applied.

 

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the

Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at

https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/11258

 

5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

 

1056473 - CVE-2012-6152 pidgin: DoS when decoding non-UTF-8 strings in Yahoo protocol plugin

1056479 - CVE-2013-6477 pidgin: DoS when handling timestamps in the XMPP plugin

1056904 - CVE-2013-6478 pidgin: DoS when rendering long URLs

1056907 - CVE-2013-6479 pidgin: DoS when parsing certain HTTP response headers

1056908 - CVE-2013-6481 pidgin: DoS caused due to OOB read in Yahoo protocol plugin

1056913 - CVE-2013-6482 pidgin: DoS via multiple null pointer dereferences in MSN protocol plugin

1056978 - CVE-2013-6483 pidgin: Possible spoofing using iq replies in XMPP protocol plugin

1057481 - CVE-2013-6484 pidgin: DoS via specially-crafted stun messages

1057484 - CVE-2013-6485 pidgin: Heap-based buffer overflow when parsing chunked HTTP responses

1057489 - CVE-2013-6487 pidgin: Heap-based buffer overflow in Gadu-Gadu protocol plugin

1057490 - CVE-2013-6489 pidgin: Heap-based buffer overflow in MXit emoticon parsing

1057498 - CVE-2013-6490 pidgin: Heap-based buffer overflow in SIMPLE protocol plugin

1057502 - CVE-2014-0020 pidgin: DoS in IRC protocol plugin due to arguement parsing

 

6. Package List:

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client):

 

Source:

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Client/en/os/SRPMS/pidgin-2.6.6-32.el5.src.rpm

 

i386:

finch-2.6.6-32.el5.i386.rpm

libpurple-2.6.6-32.el5.i386.rpm

libpurple-perl-2.6.6-32.el5.i386.rpm

libpurple-tcl-2.6.6-32.el5.i386.rpm

pidgin-2.6.6-32.el5.i386.rpm

pidgin-debuginfo-2.6.6-32.el5.i386.rpm

pidgin-perl-2.6.6-32.el5.i386.rpm

 

x86_64:

finch-2.6.6-32.el5.i386.rpm

finch-2.6.6-32.el5.x86_64.rpm

libpurple-2.6.6-32.el5.i386.rpm

libpurple-2.6.6-32.el5.x86_64.rpm

libpurple-perl-2.6.6-32.el5.x86_64.rpm

libpurple-tcl-2.6.6-32.el5.x86_64.rpm

pidgin-2.6.6-32.el5.i386.rpm

pidgin-2.6.6-32.el5.x86_64.rpm

pidgin-debuginfo-2.6.6-32.el5.i386.rpm

pidgin-debuginfo-2.6.6-32.el5.x86_64.rpm

pidgin-perl-2.6.6-32.el5.x86_64.rpm

 

RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client):

 

Source:

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Client/en/os/SRPMS/pidgin-2.6.6-32.el5.src.rpm

 

i386:

finch-devel-2.6.6-32.el5.i386.rpm

libpurple-devel-2.6.6-32.el5.i386.rpm

pidgin-debuginfo-2.6.6-32.el5.i386.rpm

pidgin-devel-2.6.6-32.el5.i386.rpm

 

x86_64:

finch-devel-2.6.6-32.el5.i386.rpm

finch-devel-2.6.6-32.el5.x86_64.rpm

libpurple-devel-2.6.6-32.el5.i386.rpm

libpurple-devel-2.6.6-32.el5.x86_64.rpm

pidgin-debuginfo-2.6.6-32.el5.i386.rpm

pidgin-debuginfo-2.6.6-32.el5.x86_64.rpm

pidgin-devel-2.6.6-32.el5.i386.rpm

pidgin-devel-2.6.6-32.el5.x86_64.rpm

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):

 

Source:

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Client/en/os/SRPMS/pidgin-2.7.9-27.el6.src.rpm

 

i386:

libpurple-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

pidgin-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

pidgin-debuginfo-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

 

x86_64:

libpurple-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

libpurple-2.7.9-27.el6.x86_64.rpm

pidgin-2.7.9-27.el6.x86_64.rpm

pidgin-debuginfo-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

pidgin-debuginfo-2.7.9-27.el6.x86_64.rpm

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6):

 

Source:

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Client/en/os/SRPMS/pidgin-2.7.9-27.el6.src.rpm

 

i386:

finch-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

finch-devel-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

libpurple-devel-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

libpurple-perl-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

libpurple-tcl-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

pidgin-debuginfo-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

pidgin-devel-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

pidgin-docs-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

pidgin-perl-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

 

x86_64:

finch-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

finch-2.7.9-27.el6.x86_64.rpm

finch-devel-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

finch-devel-2.7.9-27.el6.x86_64.rpm

libpurple-devel-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

libpurple-devel-2.7.9-27.el6.x86_64.rpm

libpurple-perl-2.7.9-27.el6.x86_64.rpm

libpurple-tcl-2.7.9-27.el6.x86_64.rpm

pidgin-debuginfo-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

pidgin-debuginfo-2.7.9-27.el6.x86_64.rpm

pidgin-devel-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

pidgin-devel-2.7.9-27.el6.x86_64.rpm

pidgin-docs-2.7.9-27.el6.x86_64.rpm

pidgin-perl-2.7.9-27.el6.x86_64.rpm

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6):

 

Source:

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Server/en/os/SRPMS/pidgin-2.7.9-27.el6.src.rpm

 

i386:

finch-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

finch-devel-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

libpurple-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

libpurple-devel-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

libpurple-perl-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

libpurple-tcl-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

pidgin-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

pidgin-debuginfo-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

pidgin-devel-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

pidgin-docs-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

pidgin-perl-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

 

ppc64:

finch-2.7.9-27.el6.ppc.rpm

finch-2.7.9-27.el6.ppc64.rpm

finch-devel-2.7.9-27.el6.ppc.rpm

finch-devel-2.7.9-27.el6.ppc64.rpm

libpurple-2.7.9-27.el6.ppc.rpm

libpurple-2.7.9-27.el6.ppc64.rpm

libpurple-devel-2.7.9-27.el6.ppc.rpm

libpurple-devel-2.7.9-27.el6.ppc64.rpm

libpurple-perl-2.7.9-27.el6.ppc64.rpm

libpurple-tcl-2.7.9-27.el6.ppc64.rpm

pidgin-2.7.9-27.el6.ppc64.rpm

pidgin-debuginfo-2.7.9-27.el6.ppc.rpm

pidgin-debuginfo-2.7.9-27.el6.ppc64.rpm

pidgin-devel-2.7.9-27.el6.ppc.rpm

pidgin-devel-2.7.9-27.el6.ppc64.rpm

pidgin-docs-2.7.9-27.el6.ppc64.rpm

pidgin-perl-2.7.9-27.el6.ppc64.rpm

 

x86_64:

finch-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

finch-2.7.9-27.el6.x86_64.rpm

finch-devel-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

finch-devel-2.7.9-27.el6.x86_64.rpm

libpurple-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

libpurple-2.7.9-27.el6.x86_64.rpm

libpurple-devel-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

libpurple-devel-2.7.9-27.el6.x86_64.rpm

libpurple-perl-2.7.9-27.el6.x86_64.rpm

libpurple-tcl-2.7.9-27.el6.x86_64.rpm

pidgin-2.7.9-27.el6.x86_64.rpm

pidgin-debuginfo-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

pidgin-debuginfo-2.7.9-27.el6.x86_64.rpm

pidgin-devel-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

pidgin-devel-2.7.9-27.el6.x86_64.rpm

pidgin-docs-2.7.9-27.el6.x86_64.rpm

pidgin-perl-2.7.9-27.el6.x86_64.rpm

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6):

 

Source:

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Workstation/en/os/SRPMS/pidgin-2.7.9-27.el6.src.rpm

 

i386:

libpurple-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

pidgin-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

pidgin-debuginfo-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

 

x86_64:

libpurple-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

libpurple-2.7.9-27.el6.x86_64.rpm

pidgin-2.7.9-27.el6.x86_64.rpm

pidgin-debuginfo-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

pidgin-debuginfo-2.7.9-27.el6.x86_64.rpm

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6):

 

Source:

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Workstation/en/os/SRPMS/pidgin-2.7.9-27.el6.src.rpm

 

i386:

finch-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

finch-devel-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

libpurple-devel-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

libpurple-perl-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

libpurple-tcl-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

pidgin-debuginfo-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

pidgin-devel-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

pidgin-docs-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

pidgin-perl-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

 

x86_64:

finch-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

finch-2.7.9-27.el6.x86_64.rpm

finch-devel-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

finch-devel-2.7.9-27.el6.x86_64.rpm

libpurple-devel-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

libpurple-devel-2.7.9-27.el6.x86_64.rpm

libpurple-perl-2.7.9-27.el6.x86_64.rpm

libpurple-tcl-2.7.9-27.el6.x86_64.rpm

pidgin-debuginfo-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

pidgin-debuginfo-2.7.9-27.el6.x86_64.rpm

pidgin-devel-2.7.9-27.el6.i686.rpm

pidgin-devel-2.7.9-27.el6.x86_64.rpm

pidgin-docs-2.7.9-27.el6.x86_64.rpm

pidgin-perl-2.7.9-27.el6.x86_64.rpm

 

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and

details on how to verify the signature are available from

https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/#package

 

7. References:

 

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2012-6152.html

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2013-6477.html

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2013-6478.html

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2013-6479.html

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2013-6481.html

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2013-6482.html

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2013-6483.html

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2013-6484.html

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2013-6485.html

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2013-6487.html

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2013-6489.html

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2013-6490.html

https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2014-0020.html

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/

 

8. Contact:

 

The Red Hat security contact is . More contact

details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

 

Copyright 2014 Red Hat, Inc.

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