PT-2014-1294 · Pidgin+4 · Pidgin+4

Published 2014-01-30 · Updated 2014-04-09 · CVE-2013-6483

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Pidgin versions prior to 2.10.8

Description The issue concerns the XMPP protocol plugin in Pidgin, which does not properly verify the consistency between the 'from' address in an IQ reply and the 'to' address in an IQ request. This inconsistency allows remote attackers to spoof IQ traffic or cause a denial of service, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference and application crash via a crafted reply.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.10.8, update to version 2.10.8 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the use of the XMPP protocol plugin until a patch is applied.

Fix

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2014-1462

BDU:2015-00079

CESA-2014_0139

CVE-2013-6483

DSA-2859-1

MGASA-2014-0034

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10432-1

RHSA-2014:0139

RHSA-2014_0139

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Pidgin

Red Hat

Suse

References · 75

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-0020 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6481 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6484 · Security Note
• http://debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2859 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-6483 · Security Note
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00039.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2014-1462 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6487 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-00080 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-00081 · Security Note
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