USN-2390-1

Jacob Appelbaum and an anonymous person discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled certificate validation. A remote attacker could exploit this to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack to view sensitive information or alter encrypted communications. (CVE-2014-3694)

Yves Younan and Richard Johnson discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled certain malformed MXit emoticons. A malicious remote server or a machine-in-the-middle could use this issue to cause Pidgin to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-3695)

Yves Younan and Richard Johnson discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled certain malformed Groupwise messages. A malicious remote server or a machine-in-the-middle could use this issue to cause Pidgin to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-3696)

Thijs Alkemade and Paul Aurich discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled memory when processing XMPP messages. A malicious remote server or user could use this issue to cause Pidgin to disclosure arbitrary memory, resulting in an information leak. (CVE-2014-3698)

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / pidgin

Package

Name: pidgin
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/pidgin@1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.2?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.2

Affected versions

1:2.*

1:2.10.7-0ubuntu4.1

1:2.10.7-0ubuntu4.2

1:2.10.9-0ubuntu1

1:2.10.9-0ubuntu2

1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3

1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.2",
            "binary_name": "finch"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.2",
            "binary_name": "finch-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.2",
            "binary_name": "libpurple-bin"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.2",
            "binary_name": "libpurple-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.2",
            "binary_name": "libpurple0"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.2",
            "binary_name": "pidgin"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.2",
            "binary_name": "pidgin-data"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.2",
            "binary_name": "pidgin-dev"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "cves": [
        {
            "id": "CVE-2014-3694",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2014-3695",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2014-3696",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "CVE-2014-3698",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS"
}