USN-3231-1

Joseph Bisch discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled certain xml messages. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Pidgin to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / pidgin

Package

Name: pidgin
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/pidgin@1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.4?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.4

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

1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.2

1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.3

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "finch",
            "binary_version": "1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "finch-dev",
            "binary_version": "1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libpurple-bin",
            "binary_version": "1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libpurple-dev",
            "binary_version": "1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libpurple0",
            "binary_version": "1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "pidgin",
            "binary_version": "1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "pidgin-data",
            "binary_version": "1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.4"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "pidgin-dev",
            "binary_version": "1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.4"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "cves": [
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                    "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                    "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2017-2640"
        }
    ],
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS"
}