Bug 529357 (CVE-2009-3615)

Summary:	CVE-2009-3615 Pidgin: Invalid pointer dereference (crash) after receiving contacts from SIM IM client
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	bressers, kreilly, security-response-team, wtogami
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=41
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Last Closed:	2012-06-20 15:29:00 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	529416, 529417, 529418, 529419, 529420, 833964
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2009-10-16 11:12:57 UTC

An invalid pointer dereference was found in the way Pidgin instant messaging
client used to process list of contacts, sent from the SIM IM client(s).
Remote attacker could send a specially-crafted contact-list to Pidgin client,
leading to denial of service (Pidgin crash) or, potentially, to execute
arbitrary code as the user running Pidgin.

References:
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http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=41
http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/10481

Upstream patch:
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http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/781682333aea0c801d280c3507ee25552a60bfc0

Credit:
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nightwing666

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2009-10-16 11:14:07 UTC

This issue affects the versions of Pidgin package, as shipped
with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2009-10-21 00:50:50 UTC

pidgin-2.6.3-2.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2009-10-21 00:56:02 UTC

pidgin-2.6.3-2.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2009-10-29 14:20:32 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3

Via RHSA-2009:1535 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1535.html

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2009-10-29 14:37:33 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2009:1536 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1536.html