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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
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<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
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<glsa id="200901-13">
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<title>Pidgin: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
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<synopsis>
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Pidgin, allowing for
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remote arbitrary code execution, Denial of Service and service spoofing.
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</synopsis>
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<product type="ebuild">pidgin</product>
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<announced>January 20, 2009</announced>
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<revised>January 20, 2009: 01</revised>
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<bug>230045</bug>
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<bug>234135</bug>
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<access>remote</access>
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<affected>
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<package name="net-im/pidgin" auto="yes" arch="*">
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<unaffected range="ge">2.5.1</unaffected>
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<vulnerable range="lt">2.5.1</vulnerable>
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</package>
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</affected>
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<background>
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<p>
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Pidgin (formerly Gaim) is an instant messaging client for a variety of
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instant messaging protocols. It is based on the libpurple instant
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messaging library.
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</p>
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</background>
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<description>
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<p>
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Pidgin and the
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libpurple library:
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</p>
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<ul><li>
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A participant to the TippingPoint ZDI reported multiple integer
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overflows in the msn_slplink_process_msg() function in the MSN protocol
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imp<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
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<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
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<glsa id="200901-13">
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<title>Pidgin: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
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<synopsis>
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Pidgin, allowing for
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remote arbitrary code execution, Denial of Service and service spoofing.
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</synopsis>
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<product type="ebuild">pidgin</product>
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<announced>January 20, 2009</announced>
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<revised>January 20, 2009: 01</revised>
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<bug>230045</bug>
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<bug>234135</bug>
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<access>remote</access>
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<affected>
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<package name="net-im/pidgin" auto="yes" arch="*">
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<unaffected range="ge">2.5.1</unaffected>
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<vulnerable range="lt">2.5.1</vulnerable>
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</package>
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</affected>
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<background>
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<p>
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Pidgin (formerly Gaim) is an instant messaging client for a variety of
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instant messaging protocols. It is based on the libpurple instant
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messaging library.
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</p>
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</background>
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<description>
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<p>
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Pidgin and the
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libpurple library:
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</p>
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<ul><li>
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A participant to the TippingPoint ZDI reported multiple integer
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overflows in the msn_slplink_process_msg() function in the MSN protocol
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implementation (CVE-2008-2927).
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</li>
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<li>
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Juan Pablo Lopez Yacubian is credited for reporting a use-after-free
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flaw in msn_slplink_process_msg() in the MSN protocol implementation
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(CVE-2008-2955).
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</li>
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<li>
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The included UPnP server does not limit the size of data to be
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downloaded for UPnP service discovery, according to a report by Andrew
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Hunt and Christian Grothoff (CVE-2008-2957).
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</li>
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<li>
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Josh Triplett discovered that the NSS plugin for libpurple does not
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properly verify SSL certificates (CVE-2008-3532).
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</li>
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</ul>
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</description>
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<impact type="normal">
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<p>
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A remote attacker could send specially crafted messages or files using
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the MSN protocol which could result |