Several security issues were fixed in Pidgin.
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)
6 February 2014
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
Several security issues were fixed in Pidgin.
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 man 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 man 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 man 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 man in the middle could use this issue to cause Pidgin to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-0020)
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system update you need to restart Pidgin to make all the necessary changes.
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