Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.703528
Category:	Debian Local Security Checks
Title:	Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-3528-1)
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'pidgin-otr' package(s) announced via the DSA-3528-1 advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'pidgin-otr' package(s) announced via the DSA-3528-1 advisory. Vulnerability Insight: Stefan Sperling discovered that pidgin-otr, a Pidgin plugin implementing Off-The-Record messaging, contained a use-after-free bug. This could be used by a malicious remote user to intentionally crash the application, thus causing a denial-of-service. For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 4.0.1-1+deb8u1. For the testing (stretch) and unstable (sid) distributions, this problem has been fixed in version 4.0.2-1. We recommend that you upgrade your pidgin-otr packages. Affected Software/OS: 'pidgin-otr' package(s) on Debian 8. Solution: Please install the updated package(s). CVSS Score: 10.0 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2015-8833 BugTraq ID: 84295 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84295 Debian Security Information: DSA-3528 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3528 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-10 https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/39-Heap-use-after-free-in-Pidgin-OTR-plugin-CVE-2015-8833.html https://lists.cypherpunks.ca/pipermail/otr-users/2016-March/002582.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/09/8 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/09/13 SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SU-2016:0912 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00095.html SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2016:0878 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-03/msg00109.html
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