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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.72054
Category:Mandrake Local Security Checks
Title:Mandriva Security Advisory MDVSA-2012:082 (pidgin)
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:
The remote host is missing an update to pidgin
announced via advisory MDVSA-2012:082.

Multiple vulnerabilities has been discovered and corrected in pidgin:

A series of specially crafted file transfer requests can cause clients
to reference invalid memory. The user must have accepted one of the
file transfer requests (CVE-2012-2214).

Incoming messages with certain characters or character encodings can
cause clients to crash (CVE-2012-2318).

This update provides pidgin 2.10.4, which is not vulnerable to
these issues.

Affected: 2011., 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-2012:082
http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/
http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=62
http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=63

Risk factor : High

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2012-2214
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:082
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17886
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2012-2318
BugTraq ID: 53400
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53400
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17448
RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2012:1102
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1102.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/50005
SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2012:0866 (Google Search)
https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15136503
CopyrightCopyright (c) 2012 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com

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