CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS
Percentile
92.1%
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Pidgin, a multi-protocol instant messaging client :
CVE-2013-6477 Jaime Breva Ribes discovered that a remote XMPP user can trigger a crash by sending a message with a timestamp in the distant future.
CVE-2013-6478 Pidgin could be crashed through overly wide tooltip windows.
CVE-2013-6479 Jacob Appelbaum discovered that a malicious server or a ‘man in the middle’ could send a malformed HTTP header resulting in denial of service.
CVE-2013-6481 Daniel Atallah discovered that Pidgin could be crashed through malformed Yahoo! P2P messages.
CVE-2013-6482 Fabian Yamaguchi and Christian Wressnegger discovered that Pidgin could be crashed through malformed MSN messages.
CVE-2013-6483 Fabian Yamaguchi and Christian Wressnegger discovered that Pidgin could be crashed through malformed XMPP messages.
CVE-2013-6484 It was discovered that incorrect error handling when reading the response from a STUN server could result in a crash.
CVE-2013-6485 Matt Jones discovered a buffer overflow in the parsing of malformed HTTP responses.
CVE-2013-6487 Yves Younan and Ryan Pentney discovered a buffer overflow when parsing Gadu-Gadu messages.
CVE-2013-6489 Yves Younan and Pawel Janic discovered an integer overflow when parsing MXit emoticons.
CVE-2013-6490 Yves Younan discovered a buffer overflow when parsing SIMPLE headers.
CVE-2014-0020 Daniel Atallah discovered that Pidgin could be crashed via malformed IRC arguments.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-2859. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(72439);
script_version("1.7");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");
script_cve_id("CVE-2013-6477", "CVE-2013-6478", "CVE-2013-6479", "CVE-2013-6481", "CVE-2013-6482", "CVE-2013-6483", "CVE-2013-6484", "CVE-2013-6485", "CVE-2013-6487", "CVE-2013-6489", "CVE-2013-6490", "CVE-2014-0020");
script_bugtraq_id(65188, 65192, 65195, 65243);
script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"2859");
script_name(english:"Debian DSA-2859-1 : pidgin - several vulnerabilities");
script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Pidgin, a
multi-protocol instant messaging client :
- CVE-2013-6477
Jaime Breva Ribes discovered that a remote XMPP user can
trigger a crash by sending a message with a timestamp in
the distant future.
- CVE-2013-6478
Pidgin could be crashed through overly wide tooltip
windows.
- CVE-2013-6479
Jacob Appelbaum discovered that a malicious server or a
'man in the middle' could send a malformed HTTP header
resulting in denial of service.
- CVE-2013-6481
Daniel Atallah discovered that Pidgin could be crashed
through malformed Yahoo! P2P messages.
- CVE-2013-6482
Fabian Yamaguchi and Christian Wressnegger discovered
that Pidgin could be crashed through malformed MSN
messages.
- CVE-2013-6483
Fabian Yamaguchi and Christian Wressnegger discovered
that Pidgin could be crashed through malformed XMPP
messages.
- CVE-2013-6484
It was discovered that incorrect error handling when
reading the response from a STUN server could result in
a crash.
- CVE-2013-6485
Matt Jones discovered a buffer overflow in the parsing
of malformed HTTP responses.
- CVE-2013-6487
Yves Younan and Ryan Pentney discovered a buffer
overflow when parsing Gadu-Gadu messages.
- CVE-2013-6489
Yves Younan and Pawel Janic discovered an integer
overflow when parsing MXit emoticons.
- CVE-2013-6490
Yves Younan discovered a buffer overflow when parsing
SIMPLE headers.
- CVE-2014-0020
Daniel Atallah discovered that Pidgin could be crashed
via malformed IRC arguments."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-6477"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-6478"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-6479"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-6481"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-6482"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-6483"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-6484"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-6485"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-6487"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-6489"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-6490"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-0020"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/pidgin"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2859"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:
"Upgrade the pidgin packages.
For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), no direct backport is
provided. A fixed package will be provided through
backports.debian.org shortly.
For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed
in version 2.10.9-1~deb7u1."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:pidgin");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2014/02/10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2014/02/12");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"finch", reference:"2.10.9-1~deb7u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"finch-dev", reference:"2.10.9-1~deb7u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libpurple-bin", reference:"2.10.9-1~deb7u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libpurple-dev", reference:"2.10.9-1~deb7u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"libpurple0", reference:"2.10.9-1~deb7u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"pidgin", reference:"2.10.9-1~deb7u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"pidgin-data", reference:"2.10.9-1~deb7u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"pidgin-dbg", reference:"2.10.9-1~deb7u1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"pidgin-dev", reference:"2.10.9-1~deb7u1")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
else security_hole(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6477
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6478
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6479
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6481
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6482
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6483
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6484
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6485
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6487
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6489
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6490
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-0020
packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/pidgin
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-6477
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-6478
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-6479
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-6481
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-6482
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-6483
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-6484
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-6485
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-6487
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-6489
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-6490
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-0020
www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2859