CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS
Percentile
96.8%
This is a bugfix & security fix release of Pidgin. The full ChangeLog is available at http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog Details of the security fixes included are available at http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Fedora Security Advisory 2009-5597.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(38997);
script_version("1.17");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/11");
script_cve_id("CVE-2008-2927", "CVE-2009-1373", "CVE-2009-1374", "CVE-2009-1375", "CVE-2009-1376");
script_bugtraq_id(35067);
script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2009-5597");
script_name(english:"Fedora 10 : pidgin-2.5.6-1.fc10 (2009-5597)");
script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package.");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"This is a bugfix & security fix release of Pidgin. The full ChangeLog
is available at http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog Details of
the security fixes included are available at
http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable
has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
without introducing additional issues."
);
# http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500488"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500490"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500491"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500493"
);
# https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2009-June/024456.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?649b2295"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:"Update the affected pidgin package."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:ND/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_cwe_id(119, 189);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pidgin");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2009/05/28");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2009/06/03");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2009-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora");
os_ver = eregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! ereg(pattern:"^10([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 10.x", "Fedora " + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC10", reference:"pidgin-2.5.6-1.fc10")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
else security_hole(0);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "pidgin");
}
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2927
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1373
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1374
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1375
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1376
www.nessus.org/u?649b2295
www.pidgin.im/news/security/
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500488
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500490
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500491
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500493
developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog