CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS
Percentile
84.7%
A security vulnerability has been identified and fixed in pidgin :
It has been discovered that eight denial of service conditions exist in libpurple all due to insufficient validation of the return value from purple_base64_decode(). Invalid or malformed data received in place of a valid base64-encoded value in portions of the Yahoo!, MSN, MySpaceIM, and XMPP protocol plugins and the NTLM authentication support trigger a crash. These vulnerabilities can be leveraged by a remote user for denial of service (CVE-2010-3711).
Packages for 2009.0 are provided as of the Extended Maintenance Program. Please visit this link to learn more:
http://store.mandriva.com/product_info.php?cPath=149&products_id=4 90
This update provides pidgin 2.7.4, which is not vulnerable to this issue.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2010:208.
# The text itself is copyright (C) Mandriva S.A.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(50296);
script_version("1.13");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/06");
script_cve_id("CVE-2010-3711");
script_bugtraq_id(44283);
script_xref(name:"MDVSA", value:"2010:208");
script_name(english:"Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : pidgin (MDVSA-2010:208)");
script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:
"The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security
updates."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"A security vulnerability has been identified and fixed in pidgin :
It has been discovered that eight denial of service conditions exist
in libpurple all due to insufficient validation of the return value
from purple_base64_decode(). Invalid or malformed data received in
place of a valid base64-encoded value in portions of the Yahoo!, MSN,
MySpaceIM, and XMPP protocol plugins and the NTLM authentication
support trigger a crash. These vulnerabilities can be leveraged by a
remote user for denial of service (CVE-2010-3711).
Packages for 2009.0 are provided as of the Extended Maintenance
Program. Please visit this link to learn more:
http://store.mandriva.com/product_info.php?cPath=149&products_id=4
90
This update provides pidgin 2.7.4, which is not vulnerable to this
issue."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://pidgin.im/news/security/"
);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P");
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_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:finch");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64finch0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64purple-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64purple0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libfinch0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libpurple-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libpurple0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:pidgin");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:pidgin-bonjour");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:pidgin-client");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:pidgin-gevolution");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:pidgin-i18n");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:pidgin-meanwhile");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:pidgin-perl");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:pidgin-plugins");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:pidgin-silc");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:pidgin-tcl");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2009.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2010.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2010.1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2010/10/21");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2010/10/22");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2010-2021 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
script_family(english:"Mandriva Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/cpu", "Host/Mandrake/release", "Host/Mandrake/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);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Mandrake/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Mandriva / Mandake Linux");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Mandrake/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if (cpu !~ "^(amd64|i[3-6]86|x86_64)$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Mandriva / Mandrake Linux", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2009.0", reference:"finch-2.7.4-0.1mdv2009.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2009.0", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"lib64finch0-2.7.4-0.1mdv2009.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2009.0", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"lib64purple-devel-2.7.4-0.1mdv2009.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2009.0", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"lib64purple0-2.7.4-0.1mdv2009.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2009.0", cpu:"i386", reference:"libfinch0-2.7.4-0.1mdv2009.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2009.0", cpu:"i386", reference:"libpurple-devel-2.7.4-0.1mdv2009.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2009.0", cpu:"i386", reference:"libpurple0-2.7.4-0.1mdv2009.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2009.0", reference:"pidgin-2.7.4-0.1mdv2009.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2009.0", reference:"pidgin-bonjour-2.7.4-0.1mdv2009.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2009.0", reference:"pidgin-client-2.7.4-0.1mdv2009.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2009.0", reference:"pidgin-gevolution-2.7.4-0.1mdv2009.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2009.0", reference:"pidgin-i18n-2.7.4-0.1mdv2009.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2009.0", reference:"pidgin-meanwhile-2.7.4-0.1mdv2009.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2009.0", reference:"pidgin-perl-2.7.4-0.1mdv2009.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2009.0", reference:"pidgin-plugins-2.7.4-0.1mdv2009.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2009.0", reference:"pidgin-silc-2.7.4-0.1mdv2009.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2009.0", reference:"pidgin-tcl-2.7.4-0.1mdv2009.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2010.0", reference:"finch-2.7.4-0.1mdv2010.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2010.0", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"lib64finch0-2.7.4-0.1mdv2010.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2010.0", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"lib64purple-devel-2.7.4-0.1mdv2010.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2010.0", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"lib64purple0-2.7.4-0.1mdv2010.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2010.0", cpu:"i386", reference:"libfinch0-2.7.4-0.1mdv2010.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2010.0", cpu:"i386", reference:"libpurple-devel-2.7.4-0.1mdv2010.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2010.0", cpu:"i386", reference:"libpurple0-2.7.4-0.1mdv2010.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2010.0", reference:"pidgin-2.7.4-0.1mdv2010.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2010.0", reference:"pidgin-bonjour-2.7.4-0.1mdv2010.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2010.0", reference:"pidgin-client-2.7.4-0.1mdv2010.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2010.0", reference:"pidgin-i18n-2.7.4-0.1mdv2010.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2010.0", reference:"pidgin-meanwhile-2.7.4-0.1mdv2010.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2010.0", reference:"pidgin-perl-2.7.4-0.1mdv2010.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2010.0", reference:"pidgin-plugins-2.7.4-0.1mdv2010.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2010.0", reference:"pidgin-silc-2.7.4-0.1mdv2010.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2010.0", reference:"pidgin-tcl-2.7.4-0.1mdv2010.0", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2010.1", reference:"finch-2.7.4-0.1mdv2010.1", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2010.1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"lib64finch0-2.7.4-0.1mdv2010.1", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2010.1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"lib64purple-devel-2.7.4-0.1mdv2010.1", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2010.1", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"lib64purple0-2.7.4-0.1mdv2010.1", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2010.1", cpu:"i386", reference:"libfinch0-2.7.4-0.1mdv2010.1", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2010.1", cpu:"i386", reference:"libpurple-devel-2.7.4-0.1mdv2010.1", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2010.1", cpu:"i386", reference:"libpurple0-2.7.4-0.1mdv2010.1", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2010.1", reference:"pidgin-2.7.4-0.1mdv2010.1", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2010.1", reference:"pidgin-bonjour-2.7.4-0.1mdv2010.1", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2010.1", reference:"pidgin-client-2.7.4-0.1mdv2010.1", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2010.1", reference:"pidgin-i18n-2.7.4-0.1mdv2010.1", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2010.1", reference:"pidgin-meanwhile-2.7.4-0.1mdv2010.1", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2010.1", reference:"pidgin-perl-2.7.4-0.1mdv2010.1", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2010.1", reference:"pidgin-plugins-2.7.4-0.1mdv2010.1", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2010.1", reference:"pidgin-silc-2.7.4-0.1mdv2010.1", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK2010.1", reference:"pidgin-tcl-2.7.4-0.1mdv2010.1", yank:"mdv")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
else security_warning(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");