DSA-1805-1 pidgin -- several vulnerabilities

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1805-1 pidgin -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

22 May 2009

Affected Packages:

pidgin

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2009-1373, CVE-2009-1375, CVE-2009-1376.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Pidgin, a graphical multi-protocol instant messaging client. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

• CVE-2009-1373

  A buffer overflow in the Jabber file transfer code may lead to denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code.

• CVE-2009-1375

  Memory corruption in an internal library may lead to denial of service.

• CVE-2009-1376

  The patch provided for the security issue tracked as CVE-2008-2927 - integer overflows in the MSN protocol handler - was found to be incomplete.

The old stable distribution (etch) is affected under the source package name gaim. However, due to build problems the updated packages couldn't be released along with the stable version. It will be released once the build problem is resolved.

For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 2.4.3-4lenny2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 2.5.6-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your pidgin packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/pidgin_2.4.3-4lenny2.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/pidgin_2.4.3-4lenny2.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/pidgin_2.4.3.orig.tar.gz

Architecture-independent component:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/libpurple-bin_2.4.3-4lenny2_all.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/libpurple-dev_2.4.3-4lenny2_all.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/finch-dev_2.4.3-4lenny2_all.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/pidgin-dev_2.4.3-4lenny2_all.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/pidgin-data_2.4.3-4lenny2_all.deb

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/pidgin_2.4.3-4lenny2_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/pidgin-dbg_2.4.3-4lenny2_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/finch_2.4.3-4lenny2_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/libpurple0_2.4.3-4lenny2_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/pidgin-dbg_2.4.3-4lenny2_amd64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/pidgin_2.4.3-4lenny2_amd64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/finch_2.4.3-4lenny2_amd64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/libpurple0_2.4.3-4lenny2_amd64.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/pidgin_2.4.3-4lenny2_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/pidgin-dbg_2.4.3-4lenny2_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/finch_2.4.3-4lenny2_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/libpurple0_2.4.3-4lenny2_arm.deb

ARM EABI:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/pidgin-dbg_2.4.3-4lenny2_armel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/finch_2.4.3-4lenny2_armel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/pidgin_2.4.3-4lenny2_armel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/libpurple0_2.4.3-4lenny2_armel.deb

HP Precision:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/pidgin_2.4.3-4lenny2_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/pidgin-dbg_2.4.3-4lenny2_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/finch_2.4.3-4lenny2_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/libpurple0_2.4.3-4lenny2_hppa.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/libpurple0_2.4.3-4lenny2_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/pidgin_2.4.3-4lenny2_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/pidgin-dbg_2.4.3-4lenny2_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/finch_2.4.3-4lenny2_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/pidgin_2.4.3-4lenny2_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/libpurple0_2.4.3-4lenny2_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/finch_2.4.3-4lenny2_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/pidgin-dbg_2.4.3-4lenny2_ia64.deb

Big-endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/pidgin-dbg_2.4.3-4lenny2_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/pidgin_2.4.3-4lenny2_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/finch_2.4.3-4lenny2_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/libpurple0_2.4.3-4lenny2_mips.deb

Little-endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/finch_2.4.3-4lenny2_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/libpurple0_2.4.3-4lenny2_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/pidgin_2.4.3-4lenny2_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/pidgin-dbg_2.4.3-4lenny2_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/libpurple0_2.4.3-4lenny2_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/finch_2.4.3-4lenny2_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/pidgin-dbg_2.4.3-4lenny2_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/pidgin_2.4.3-4lenny2_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/pidgin_2.4.3-4lenny2_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/pidgin-dbg_2.4.3-4lenny2_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/finch_2.4.3-4lenny2_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/libpurple0_2.4.3-4lenny2_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/pidgin-dbg_2.4.3-4lenny2_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/pidgin_2.4.3-4lenny2_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/libpurple0_2.4.3-4lenny2_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/finch_2.4.3-4lenny2_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.