Pidgin: Denial of Service -- Remote/Unauthenticated

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                         AUSCERT Security Bulletin

                               ASB-2012.0068
        A number of vulnerabilities have been identified in Pidgin
                                8 May 2012

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        AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product:              Pidgin
Operating System:     UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX)
                      Windows
Impact/Access:        Denial of Service -- Remote/Unauthenticated
Resolution:           Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names:            CVE-2012-2318 CVE-2012-2214 
Member content until: Thursday, June  7 2012

OVERVIEW

        A number of vulnerabilities have been identified in Pidgin prior to
        version 2.10.4.


IMPACT

        The vendor has provided the following details regarding these
        vulnerabilities:
        
        CVE-2012-2214: "A series of specially crafted file transfer requests 
        can cause clients to reference invalid memory. The user must have 
        accepted one of the file transfer requests." [1]
        
        CVE-2012-2318: "Incoming messages with certain characters or character 
        encodings can cause clients to crash." [2]


MITIGATION

        The vendor recommends updating to the latest version of Pidgin to
        correct these issues. [1, 2]


REFERENCES

        [1] Pidgin Security Advisory
            http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=62

        [2] Pidgin Security Advisory
            http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=63

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