metadata/glsa/glsa-201405-22.xml

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<glsa id="201405-22">
  <title>Pidgin: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities in Pidgin may allow execution of arbitrary
    code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">pidgin</product>
  <announced>May 18, 2014</announced>
  <revised>May 18, 2014: 1</revised>
  <bug>457580</bug>
  <bug>499596</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-im/pidgin" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.10.9</unaffected>
      <unaffected range="rge">2.10.9-r1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.10.9</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Pidgin is a GTK Instant Messenger client for a variety of instant
      messaging protocols.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Pidgin. Please review
      the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the
      privileges of the Pidgin process, cause a Denial of Service condition,
      overwrite files, or spoof traffic.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All Pidgin users on HPPA or users of GNOME 3.8 and later on AMD64 or X86
      should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-im/pidgin-2.10.9-r1"
    </code>
    
    <p>All Pidgin users on ALPHA, PPC, PPC64, SPARC, and users of GNOME before
      3.8 on AMD64 and X86 should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-im/pidgin-2.10.9"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-6152">CVE-2012-6152</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-0271">CVE-2013-0271</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-0272">CVE-2013-0272</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-0273">CVE-2013-0273</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-0274">CVE-2013-0274</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-6477">CVE-2013-6477</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-6478">CVE-2013-6478</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-6479">CVE-2013-6479</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-6481">CVE-2013-6481</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-6482">CVE-2013-6482</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-6483">CVE-2013-6483</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-6484">CVE-2013-6484</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-6485">CVE-2013-6485</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-6487">CVE-2013-6487</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-6489">CVE-2013-6489</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-6490">CVE-2013-6490</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-0020">CVE-2014-0020</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sun, 17 Mar 2013 15:51:12 +0000">ackle</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Sun, 18 May 2014 17:28:53 +0000">ackle</metadata>
</glsa>