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  • [SECURITY] [DSA 1870-1] New pidgin packages fix arbitrary code executio

    From Nico Golde@1:229/2 to All on Thu Aug 20 00:40:08 2009
    From: [email protected]

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    - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-1870-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Nico Golde August 19th, 2009 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
    - --------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Package : pidgin
    Vulnerability : insufficient input validation
    Problem type : remote
    Debian-specific: no
    CVE ID : CVE-2009-2694

    Federico Muttis discovered that libpurple, the shared library that adds
    support for various instant messaging networks to the pidgin IM client, is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow. This issue exists because of
    an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-2927 and CVE-2009-1376. An attacker can
    exploit this by sending two consecutive SLP packets to a victim via MSN.

    The first packet is used to create an SLP message object with an offset of zero, the second packet then contains a crafted offset which hits the vulnerable code originally fixed in CVE-2008-2927 and CVE-2009-1376 and
    allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code.

    Note: Users with the "Allow only the users below" setting are not vulnerable
    to this attack. If you can't install the below updates you may want to
    set this via Tools->Privacy.


    For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
    version 2.4.3-4lenny3.

    For the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem will be fixed soon.

    For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
    version 2.5.9-1.

    We recommend that you upgrade your pidgin packages.

    Upgrade instructions
    - --------------------

    wget url
    will fetch the file for you
    dpkg -i file.deb
    will install the referenced file.

    If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
    sources.list as given below:

    apt-get update
    will update the internal database
    apt-get upgrade
    will install corrected packages

    You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
    footer to the proper configuration.

    Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias lenny
    - --------------------------------

    Debian (stable)
    - ---------------

    Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

    Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/pidgin_2.4.3.orig.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 13123610 d0e0bd218fbc67df8b2eca2f21fcd427
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/pidgin_2.4.3-4lenny3.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1784 e9bc246ba4f0ca8dab1436d66bd00adb
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/pidgin_2.4.3-4lenny3.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 67928 545981a43e8c1b905ea1adb0da9b1b4d

    Architecture independent packages:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/libpurple-bin_2.4.3-4lenny3_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 133552 d4adb0ff7da09da14d34f3ae9484ea94
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/pidgin-data_2.4.3-4lenny3_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 7018488 09b2f817c71774e2108b4366602f5dcf
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/libpurple-dev_2.4.3-4lenny3_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 276890 dab9b30c46f9a2c03af02d381cb029cf
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/pidgin-dev_2.4.3-4lenny3_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 354146 291a984ea00f92d67a3d0b99040d7d72
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/finch-dev_2.4.3-4lenny3_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 159388 f73823fb36f1d0487cc29d0d71a7a471

    alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/finch_2.4.3-4lenny3_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 369628 cd01f407199d1ca84f2502c4f4d169db
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/pidgin_2.4.3-4lenny3_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 779192 fdb6b047a48f3c255fa13a329dc5fc35
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/pidgin-dbg_2.4.3-4lenny3_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 5545960 fe294dfeb4dd7ca7ff6e5636230c856c
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/libpurple0_2.4.3-4lenny3_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1803004 81ef9e0af747f0b236b25b1407d38266

    amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/finch_2.4.3-4lenny3_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 345894 4b31436a96b5834d8ebe3639b837093d
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/pidgin-dbg_2.4.3-4lenny3_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 5668550 58b27242ababd545a49b080527cd8769
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/pidgin_2.4.3-4lenny3_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 722220 e249e5fb7581ec28a0f4e0a32fab3d2c
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/libpurple0_2.4.3-4lenny3_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1706142 2f1f823ff5c26eb1cc67874633a6891d

    arm architecture (ARM)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/finch_2.4.3-4lenny3_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 315182 d935ef53df9f333d0b2eb8d38e2bb753
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/pidgin_2.4.3-4lenny3_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 655088 8631310cc8beb7902fef81b51af01fd8
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/libpurple0_2.4.3-4lenny3_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1490226 cfe0d6727f4a9aa671a3413817fb11ae
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/pidgin-dbg_2.4.3-4lenny3_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 5348504 d1ef7ddf61f0e44f46c646e4f4add280

    armel architecture (ARM EABI)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/pidgin-dbg_2.4.3-4lenny3_armel.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 5386792 c5d2643ba6bc47aa41de04b870bbca3d
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/pidgin_2.4.3-4lenny3_armel.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 666444 507fd3b558360b054d67843f3dba2689
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pidgin/finch_2.4.3-4lenny3_armel.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 318828 fcaea331f126eb2329bf54d0c8df7269

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