Bug 1057481 (CVE-2013-6484)

Summary: CVE-2013-6484 pidgin: DoS via specially-crafted stun messages
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Version: unspecifiedCC: cschalle, debarshir, jkurik, jrusnack, mbarnes, pfrields, security-response-team
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OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: pidgin 2.10.8 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2014-09-19 20:05:54 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 1058238, 1058239, 1058240, 1058242, 1058243, 1059049    
Bug Blocks: 1054257    
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2014-01-24 08:38:58 UTC 
A flaw was found in the way pidgin handled certain responses from a stun server. A remote stun server could send specially-crafted messages to pidgin causing it to crash.


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Pidgin project for reporting this issue.
Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2014-01-27 06:17:05 UTC 
Created attachment 855926 [details]
Local copy of patch
Comment 3 Vincent Danen 2014-01-28 20:50:40 UTC 
External References:

http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=79
Comment 4 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2014-01-29 04:24:48 UTC 
Created pidgin tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1059049]
Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2014-02-05 17:44:44 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2014:0139 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0139.html
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2014-02-06 03:49:51 UTC 
pidgin-2.10.9-1.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2014-02-14 07:59:27 UTC 
pidgin-2.10.9-1.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.