• [SECURITY] [DSA 2859-2] pidgin security update

    From Raphael Geissert@1:229/2 to All on Wed Mar 19 23:50:02 2014
    From: [email protected]

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    - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-2859-2 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Raphael Geissert
    March 19, 2014 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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    Package : pidgin
    CVE ID : CVE-2013-6485 CVE-2013-6490

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in pidgin, a multi-protocol instant messaging client. In addition to fixing the vulnerabilities,
    this revision specific to the oldstable distribution (squeeze),
    reduces the supported protocols to: IRC, Jabber/XMPP, Sametime, and
    SIMPLE.

    Users of other protocols are encouraged to either upgrade to the stable distribution (wheezy) or to use the version in backports. It must be
    noted, however, that the latter is not supported by the Security Team.

    For reference, the original description of the vulnerabilities from
    DSA-2859-1 is quoted below:

    CVE-2013-6485

    Matt Jones discovered a buffer overflow in the parsing of malformed
    HTTP responses.

    CVE-2013-6490

    Yves Younan discovered a buffer overflow when parsing SIMPLE
    headers.

    For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 2.7.3-1+squeeze4.

    We recommend that you upgrade your pidgin packages.

    Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
    these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
    found at: http://www.debian.org/security/

    Mailing list: [email protected]
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