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ELSA-2009-1059 Important: Enterprise Linux pidgin security update

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ELSA-2009-1059 Important: Enterprise Linux pidgin security update

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
05/26/2009
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/20/2011
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

Multiple integer overflows in the msn_slplink_process_msg functions in the MSN protocol handler in (1) libpurple/protocols/msn/slplink.c and (2) libpurple/protocols/msnp9/slplink.c in Pidgin (formerly Gaim) before 2.5.6 on 32-bit platforms allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed SLP message with a crafted offset value, leading to buffer overflows. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-2927.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-pidgin

References

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