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ELSA-2010-0890 Moderate: Oracle Linux pidgin security update

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ELSA-2010-0890 Moderate: Oracle Linux pidgin security update

Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Published

10/27/2010

Created

07/25/2018

Added

12/20/2011

Modified

04/11/2019

Description

libpurple in Pidgin before 2.7.4 does not properly validate the return value of the purple_base64_decode function, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted message, related to the plugins for MSN, MySpaceIM, XMPP, and Yahoo! and the NTLM authentication support.

Solution(s)

oracle-linux-upgrade-finch
oracle-linux-upgrade-finch-devel
oracle-linux-upgrade-libpurple
oracle-linux-upgrade-libpurple-devel
oracle-linux-upgrade-libpurple-perl
oracle-linux-upgrade-libpurple-tcl
oracle-linux-upgrade-pidgin
oracle-linux-upgrade-pidgin-devel
oracle-linux-upgrade-pidgin-docs
oracle-linux-upgrade-pidgin-perl

References

https://attackerkb.com/topics/cve-2010-3711
44283
CVE - 2010-3711
OVAL18506
RHSA-2010:0788
RHSA-2010:0890
http://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/el-errata/2011-February/001831.html
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