PT-2014-5459 · Pidgin+5 · Libpurple+6

Published 2014-10-22 · Updated 2018-01-05 · CVE-2014-3698

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

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

Description The issue allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory via a crafted XMPP message. This is due to a problem in the jabber idn validate function in jutil.c in the Jabber protocol plugin in libpurple.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.10.10, update to version 2.10.10 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider disabling the jabber idn validate function until a patch is available. Restrict access to the Jabber protocol plugin to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2014-2302

CESA-2017_1854

CVE-2014-3698

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

Pidgin

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

Libpurple

References · 46

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3697 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-3696 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2014-0425 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-3698 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-3698 · Security Note
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1854 · Vendor Advisory
• http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/ea46ab68f0dc · Patch
• http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=90 · 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://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2014-2302 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3694 · Security Note
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2017-1854.html · Vendor Advisory