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ELSA-2011-1371 Moderate: Oracle Linux pidgin security update

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ELSA-2011-1371 Moderate: Oracle Linux pidgin security update

Severity

CVSS

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

Published

03/14/2011

Created

07/25/2018

Added

12/20/2011

Modified

07/04/2017

Description

The g_markup_escape_text function in the SILC protocol plug-in in libpurple 2.10.0 and earlier, as used in Pidgin and possibly other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via invalid UTF-8 sequences that trigger use of invalid pointers and an out-of-bounds read, related to interactions with certain versions of glib2.

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-perl

References

https://attackerkb.com/topics/cve-2011-1091
46837
CVE - 2011-1091
CVE - 2011-3594
OVAL18034
OVAL18402
RHSA-2011:0616
RHSA-2011:1371
http://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/el-errata/2011-October/002400.html
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