Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.703055
Category:	Debian Local Security Checks
Title:	Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-3055-1)
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'pidgin' package(s) announced via the DSA-3055-1 advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'pidgin' package(s) announced via the DSA-3055-1 advisory. Vulnerability Insight: Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Pidgin, a multi-protocol instant messaging client: CVE-2014-3694 It was discovered that the SSL/TLS plugins failed to validate the basic constraints extension in intermediate CA certificates. CVE-2014-3695 Yves Younan and Richard Johnson discovered that emoticons with overly large length values could crash Pidgin. CVE-2014-3696 Yves Younan and Richard Johnson discovered that malformed Groupwise messages could crash Pidgin. CVE-2014-3698 Thijs Alkemade and Paul Aurich discovered that malformed XMPP messages could result in memory disclosure. For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 2.10.10-1~ deb7u1. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 2.10.10-1. We recommend that you upgrade your pidgin packages. Affected Software/OS: 'pidgin' package(s) on Debian 7. Solution: Please install the updated package(s). CVSS Score: 6.4 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2014-3694 Debian Security Information: DSA-3055 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3055 RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2017:1854 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1854 http://secunia.com/advisories/60741 http://secunia.com/advisories/61968 SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2014:1376 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00023.html SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2014:1397 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00037.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2390-1 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2014-3695 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2014-3696 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2014-3698
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