Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.881448
Category:	CentOS Local Security Checks
Title:	CentOS Update for finch CESA-2011:1821 centos6
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 AOL Open System for Communication in Realtime (OSCAR) protocol plug-in in Pidgin, used by the AOL ICQ and AIM instant messaging systems, escaped certain UTF-8 characters. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash Pidgin via a specially-crafted OSCAR message. (CVE-2011-4601) Multiple NULL pointer dereference flaws were found in the Jingle extension of the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) protocol plug-in in Pidgin. A remote attacker could use these flaws to crash Pidgin via a specially-crafted Jingle multimedia message. (CVE-2011-4602) Red Hat would like to thank the Pidgin project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Evgeny Boger as the original reporter of CVE-2011-4601, and Thijs Alkemade as the original reporter of CVE-2011-4602. 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 6 Solution: Please install the updated packages. CVSS Score: 5.0 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2011-4601 BugTraq ID: 51010 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51010 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:183 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/10/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/10/2 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18408 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1820.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1821.html http://secunia.com/advisories/47219 http://secunia.com/advisories/47234 SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2012:0066 (Google Search) https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/13195955 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2011-4602 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18420
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