PT-2014-5455 · Pidgin+6 · Libpurple+7

Jacob Appelbaum + 1 · Published 2014-10-22 · Updated 2018-10-30 · CVE-2014-3694

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.4

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Pidgin versions prior to 2.10.10

Description The issue arises from the improper consideration of the Basic Constraints extension during the verification of X.509 certificates from SSL servers by the bundled GnuTLS and OpenSSL SSL/TLS plugins in libpurple. This allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.10.10, update to version 2.10.10 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-310

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2014-2302

CESA-2017_1854

CVE-2014-3694

DSA-3055-1

MGASA-2014-0425

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10432-1

RHSA-2017:1854

RHSA-2017_1854

USN-2390-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Gnutls

Openssl

Pidgin

Red Hat

Ubuntu

Libpurple

References · 46

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3697 · Security Note
• http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=86 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-3696 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-3694 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2014-0425 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3694 · Vendor Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1854 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3694 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00023.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3055 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-2390-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3695 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-3694 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-3694 · Security Note
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2014-2302 · Vendor Advisory