PT-2014-1297 · Pidgin+4 · Pidgin+4

Yves Younan · Published 2014-01-30 · Updated 2014-04-09 · CVE-2013-6490

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

10

High

Base vector

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

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

Description The issue concerns the SIMPLE protocol functionality, which allows remote attackers to have an impact via a negative Content-Length header, triggering a buffer overflow. This can potentially lead to a denial of service or execution of arbitrary code by manipulating message headers.

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 access to the SIMPLE protocol functionality until a patch is available.

Fix

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2014-1462

BDU:2015-00082

CESA-2014_0139

CVE-2013-6490

DSA-2859-1

DSA-2859-2

MGASA-2014-0034

RHSA-2014:0139

RHSA-2014_0139

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Pidgin

Red Hat

Suse

References · 73

• http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=84 · Vendor Advisory
• 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://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2013-6490 · 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
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-00077 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-6490 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-00085 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6489 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2014-0034 · Vendor Advisory