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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.900940
Category:Denial of Service
Title:Pidgin < 2.6.2 Multiple DoS Vulnerabilities - Windows
Summary:Pidgin is prone to multiple denial of service (DoS) vulnerabilities.
Description:Summary:
Pidgin is prone to multiple denial of service (DoS) vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability Insight:
The following vulnerabilities exist:

- An error in libpurple/protocols/irc/msgs.c in the IRC protocol plugin in
libpurple can trigger a NULL-pointer dereference when processing TOPIC
messages which lack a topic string.

- An error in the 'msn_slp_sip_recv' function in libpurple/protocols/msn/slp.c
in the MSN protocol can trigger a NULL-pointer dereference via an SLP invite
message missing expected fields.

- An error in the 'msn_slp_process_msg' function in libpurple/protocols/msn/
slpcall.c in the MSN protocol when converting the encoding of a handwritten
message can be exploited by improper utilisation of uninitialised variables.

- An error in the XMPP protocol plugin in libpurple is fails to handle an
error IQ stanza during an attempted fetch of a custom smiley is processed
via XHTML-IM content with cid: images.

Vulnerability Impact:
Attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code, corrupt memory
and cause the application to crash.

Affected Software/OS:
Pidgin version prior to 2.6.2 on Windows.

Solution:
Upgrade to Pidgin version 2.6.2.

CVSS Score:
5.0

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-2703
BugTraq ID: 36277
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36277
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11379
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6435
http://secunia.com/advisories/36601
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-3083
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11852
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6322
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-3084
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6338
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-3085
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11223
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6434
CopyrightCopyright (C) 2009 Greenbone AG

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