Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.881039
Category:	CentOS Local Security Checks
Title:	CentOS Update for finch CESA-2011:1371 centos4 i386
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the 'finch'; package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the 'finch' package(s) announced via the referenced advisory. Vulnerability Insight: Pidgin is an instant messaging program which can log in to multiple accounts on multiple instant messaging networks simultaneously. An input sanitization flaw was found in the way the Pidgin SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) protocol plug-in escaped certain UTF-8 characters. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash Pidgin via a specially-crafted SILC message. (CVE-2011-3594) Multiple NULL pointer dereference flaws were found in the way the Pidgin Yahoo! Messenger Protocol plug-in handled malformed YMSG packets. A remote attacker could use these flaws to crash Pidgin via a specially-crafted notification message. (CVE-2011-1091) Red Hat would like to thank the Pidgin project for reporting CVE-2011-1091. Upstream acknowledges Marius Wachtler as the original reporter of CVE-2011-1091. All Pidgin users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues. Pidgin must be restarted for this update to take effect. Affected Software/OS: finch on CentOS 4 Solution: Please install the updated packages. CVSS Score: 4.3 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2011-1091 43695 http://secunia.com/advisories/43695 43721 http://secunia.com/advisories/43721 46376 http://secunia.com/advisories/46376 46837 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46837 ADV-2011-0643 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0643 ADV-2011-0661 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0661 ADV-2011-0669 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0669 ADV-2011-0703 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0703 FEDORA-2011-3113 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055874.html FEDORA-2011-3150 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056309.html RHSA-2011:0616 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0616.html RHSA-2011:1371 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1371.html SSA:2011-070-02 http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2011&m=slackware-security.466884 http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/diff/5cbe18129b6e7c660bc093f7e5e1414ceca17d04/with/a7c415abba1f5f01f79295337518837f73d99bb7/libpurple/protocols/yahoo/libymsg.c http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/a7c415abba1f5f01f79295337518837f73d99bb7 http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=51 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=683031 openSUSE-SU-2012:0066 https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/13195955 oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18402 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18402 pidgin-yahoo-protocol-dos(66055) https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66055 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2011-3594 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:183 http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/diff/be5e66abad2af29604bc794cc4c6600ab12751f3/with/7eb1f6d56cc58bbb5b56b7df53955d36b9b419b8 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=743481 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18034
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