Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.851535
Category:	SuSE Local Security Checks
Title:	openSUSE: Security Advisory for pidgin (openSUSE-SU-2017:0973-1)
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the 'pidgin'; package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the 'pidgin' package(s) announced via the referenced advisory. Vulnerability Insight: This update for pidgin to version 2.12.0 fixes the following issues: This security issue was fixed: - CVE-2017-2640: Out of bounds memory read in purple_markup_unescape_entity (boo#1028835). These non-security issues were fixed: + libpurple: - Fix the use of uninitialised memory if running non-debug-enabled versions of glib. - Update AIM dev and dist ID's to new ones that were assigned by AOL. - TLS certificate verification now uses SHA-256 checksums. - Fix the SASL external auth for Freenode (boo#1009974). - Remove the MSN protocol plugin. It has been unusable and dormant for some time. - Remove the Mxit protocol plugin. The service was closed at the end ofSeptember 2016. - Remove the MySpaceIM protocol plugin. The service has been defunct for a long time (pidgin.im#15356). - Remove the Yahoo! protocol plugin. Yahoo has completely reimplemented their protocol, so this version is no longer operable as of August 5th, 2016. ended April 30th, 2015. - Fix gnutls certificate validation errors that mainly affected Google. + General: - Replace instances of d.pidgin.im with developer.pidgin.im and update the urls to use https (pidgin.im#17036). + IRC: - Fix an issue of messages being silently cut off at 500 characters. Large messages are now split into parts and sent one by one (pidgin.im#4753). Affected Software/OS: pidgin on openSUSE Leap 42.2 Solution: Please install the updated package(s). CVSS Score: 7.5 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-2640 BugTraq ID: 96775 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96775 Debian Security Information: DSA-3806 (Google Search) https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3806 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-10 RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2017:1854 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1854
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