| Description: | Description:
The remote host is missing an update to pidgin
announced via advisory MDVSA-2010:001.
Security vulnerabilities has been identified and fixed in pidgin:
The OSCAR protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.6.3 and Adium
before 1.3.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service
(application crash) via crafted contact-list data for (1) ICQ and
possibly (2) AIM, as demonstrated by the SIM IM client (CVE-2009-3615).
Directory traversal vulnerability in slp.c in the MSN protocol
plugin in libpurple in Pidgin 2.6.4 and Adium 1.3.8 allows
remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in an
application/x-msnmsgrp2p MSN emoticon (aka custom smiley) request,
a related issue to CVE-2004-0122. NOTE: it could be argued that
this is resultant from a vulnerability in which an emoticon download
request is processed even without a preceding text/x-mms-emoticon
message that announced availability of the emoticon (CVE-2010-0013).
Packages for 2008.0 are provided for Corporate Desktop 2008.0
customers.
This update provides pidgin 2.6.5, which is not vulnerable to these
issues.
Affected: 2008.0, 2009.1, Enterprise Server 5.0
Solution:
To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.
http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=MDVSA-2010:001
http://pidgin.im/news/security/
Risk factor : Medium
CVSS Score:
5.0
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