USN-2100-1: Pidgin vulnerabilities
6 February 2014
Several security issues were fixed in Pidgin.
Releases
Packages
- pidgin - graphical multi-protocol instant messaging client for X
Details
Thijs Alkemade and Robert Vehse discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled
the Yahoo! protocol. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause
Pidgin to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2012-6152)
Jaime Breva Ribes discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled the XMPP
protocol. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Pidgin to crash,
resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2013-6477)
It was discovered that Pidgin incorrecly handled long URLs. A remote
attacker could use this issue to cause Pidgin to crash, resulting in a
denial of service. (CVE-2013-6478)
Jacob Appelbaum discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled certain HTTP
responses. A malicious remote server or a machine-in-the-middle could use this
issue to cause Pidgin to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2013-6479)
Daniel Atallah discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled the Yahoo!
protocol. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Pidgin to crash,
resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2013-6481)
Fabian Yamaguchi and Christian Wressnegger discovered that Pidgin
incorrectly handled the MSN protocol. A remote attacker could use this
issue to cause Pidgin to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2013-6482)
Fabian Yamaguchi and Christian Wressnegger discovered that Pidgin
incorrectly handled XMPP iq replies. A remote attacker could use this
issue to spoof messages. (CVE-2013-6483)
It was discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled STUN server responses. A
remote attacker could use this issue to cause Pidgin to crash, resulting in
a denial of service. (CVE-2013-6484)
Matt Jones discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled certain chunked HTTP
responses. A malicious remote server or a machine-in-the-middle could use this
issue to cause Pidgin to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or
possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2013-6485)
Yves Younan and Ryan Pentney discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled
certain Gadu-Gadu HTTP messages. A malicious remote server or a
machine-in-the-middle could use this issue to cause Pidgin to crash,
resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2013-6487)
Yves Younan and Pawel Janic discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled MXit
emoticons. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Pidgin to crash,
resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2013-6489)
Yves Younan discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled SIMPLE headers. A
remote attacker could use this issue to cause Pidgin to crash, resulting in
a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2013-6490)
Daniel Atallah discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled IRC argument
parsing. A malicious remote server or a machine-in-the-middle could use this
issue to cause Pidgin to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2014-0020)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 13.10
Ubuntu 12.10
Ubuntu 12.04
After a standard system update you need to restart Pidgin to make all the
necessary changes.
Related notices
- USN-2101-1: libgadu3, libgadu