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ELSA-2011-1821 Moderate: Oracle Linux pidgin security update

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ELSA-2011-1821 Moderate: Oracle Linux pidgin security update

Severity

CVSS

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

Published

12/16/2011

Created

07/25/2018

Added

01/25/2012

Modified

07/04/2017

Description

The XMPP protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.1 does not properly handle missing fields in (1) voice-chat and (2) video-chat stanzas, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted message.

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-2011-4601
51010
CVE - 2011-4601
CVE - 2011-4602
OVAL18408
OVAL18420
RHSA-2011:1820
RHSA-2011:1821
http://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/el-errata/2011-December/002516.html

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