metadata/glsa/glsa-201206-11.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201206-11">
  <title>Pidgin: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities were found in Pidgin, the worst of which
    allowing for the remote execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">Pidgin</product>
  <announced>June 21, 2012</announced>
  <revised>June 21, 2012: 1</revised>
  <bug>299751</bug>
  <bug>372785</bug>
  <bug>385073</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-im/pidgin" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.10.0-r1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.10.0-r1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Pidgin is an GTK Instant Messenger client.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Pidgin. Please review
      the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>These vulnerabilities allow for arbitrary file retrieval, Denial of
      Service and arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user
      running Pidgin.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All Pidgin users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-im/pidgin-2.10.0-r1"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-0013">CVE-2010-0013</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-2485">CVE-2011-2485</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-3594">CVE-2011-3594</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata timestamp="Fri, 07 Oct 2011 23:37:06 +0000" tag="requester">
    keytoaster
  </metadata>
  <metadata timestamp="Thu, 21 Jun 2012 18:17:26 +0000" tag="submitter">craig</metadata>
</glsa>