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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2016-1000030: pidgin security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2016-1000030: pidgin security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/05/2018
Created
11/03/2020
Added
11/02/2020
Modified
11/02/2020

Description

Pidgin version <2.11.0 contains a vulnerability in X.509 Certificates imports specifically due to improper check of return values from gnutls_x509_crt_init() and gnutls_x509_crt_import() that can result in code execution. This attack appear to be exploitable via custom X.509 certificate from another client. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 2.11.0.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-libpurple

References

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