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
Copyright	Copyright (C) 2009 Greenbone AG

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