Pidgin: Multiple vulnerabilities — GLSA 201701-38

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Pidgin, the worst of which could lead to execution of arbitrary code.

Affected packages

Background

Pidgin is a client for a variety of instant messaging protocols.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Pidgin. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A remote attacker might send specially crafted data using the MXit protocol, possibly resulting in the remote execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, a Denial of Service condition, or in leaking confidential information.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-im/pidgin-2.11.0"
 

References

• CVE-2016-1000030
• CVE-2016-2365
• CVE-2016-2366
• CVE-2016-2367
• CVE-2016-2368
• CVE-2016-2369
• CVE-2016-2370
• CVE-2016-2371
• CVE-2016-2372
• CVE-2016-2373
• CVE-2016-2374
• CVE-2016-2375
• CVE-2016-2376
• CVE-2016-2377
• CVE-2016-2378
• CVE-2016-2379
• CVE-2016-2380
• CVE-2016-4323

Release date
January 17, 2017

Latest revision
January 17, 2017: 01

Severity
normal

Exploitable
remote

Bugzilla entries

• 586698