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Red Hat: CVE-2017-2640: Moderate: pidgin security, bug fix, and enhancement update (RHSA-2017:1854)

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Red Hat: CVE-2017-2640: Moderate: pidgin security, bug fix, and enhancement update (RHSA-2017:1854)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/10/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/03/2017
Modified
09/26/2018

Description

An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in the way Pidgin before 2.12.0 processed XML content. A malicious remote server could potentially use this flaw to crash Pidgin or execute arbitrary code in the context of the pidgin process.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-finch
  • redhat-upgrade-finch-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-libpurple
  • redhat-upgrade-libpurple-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-libpurple-perl
  • redhat-upgrade-libpurple-tcl
  • redhat-upgrade-pidgin
  • redhat-upgrade-pidgin-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-pidgin-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-pidgin-perl

References

  • 96775
  • DLA-853-1
  • DSA-3806
  • GLSA-201706-10
  • CVE-2017-2640
  • RHSA-2017:1854
  • USN-3231-1
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