FreshPorts - VuXML

Pidgin reports:

libpurple

Fix a crash when receiving UPnP responses with abnormally long values.

MXit

Fix two bugs where a remote MXit user could possibly specify a local file path to be written to.

Fix a bug where the MXit server or a man-in-the-middle could potentially send specially crafted data that could overflow a buffer and lead to a crash or remote code execution.

Sametime

Fix a crash in Sametime when a malicious server sends us an abnormally long user ID.

< 2.10.7

Secunia reports:

A vulnerability has been reported in Pidgin, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the "msn_slplink_process_msg()" function when processing MSN SLP messages and can be exploited to corrupt memory.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability is reported in versions 2.5.8 and prior. Other versions may also be affected.

< 2.5.9

Pidgin reports:

A series of specially crafted file transfer requests can cause clients to reference invalid memory. The user must have accepted one of the file transfer requests.

< 2.10.4

US-CERT reports:

The msn_oim_report_to_user function in oim.c in the MSN protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.2 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an OIM message that lacks UTF-8 encoding.

< 2.10.2

Three denial of service vulnerabilities where found in pidgin and allow remote attackers to crash the application. The developers summarized these problems as follows:

Pidgin can become unresponsive when displaying large numbers of smileys

Certain nicknames in group chat rooms can trigger a crash in Finch

Failure to validate all fields of an incoming message can trigger a crash

< 2.6.6

< 2.6.6

Secunia reports:

Some vulnerabilities and weaknesses have been reported in Pidgin, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS or to potentially compromise a user's system.

A truncation error in the processing of MSN SLP messages can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow.

A boundary error in the XMPP SOCKS5 "bytestream" server when initiating an outgoing file transfer can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow.

A boundary error exists in the implementation of the "PurpleCircBuffer" structure. This can be exploited to corrupt memory and cause a crash via specially crafted XMPP or Sametime packets.

A boundary error in the "decrypt_out()" function can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow with 8 bytes and crash the application via a specially crafted QQ packet.

< 2.5.6

The pidgin development team reports:

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< 2.10.10

< 2.10.10