Bug 589973 (CVE-2010-1624)

Summary:	CVE-2010-1624 Pidgin: MSN SLP emoticon DoS (NULL pointer dereference)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	jrb, mbarnes, security-response-team
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OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	591806, 591808, 644153, 644155, 644157, 644158, 833967
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2010-05-07 12:42:59 UTC

Pierre Noguès found a NULL pointer dereference in the Pidgin
MSN SLP protocol implementation, by processing custom emoticon
messages. A remote, authenticated user could use this deficiency
to cause a denial of service (Pidgin crash).


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Pidgin project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Pierre Noguès of Meta Security as the original reporter.

Comment 4 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-05-07 12:49:00 UTC

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

This issue affects the versions of the pidgin package, as shipped
with Fedora release of 11 and 12.

Comment 7 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-05-12 16:28:35 UTC

This is CVE-2010-1624.

Comment 8 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-05-13 08:18:31 UTC

Upstream advisory:
  [1] http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=46

Upstream commit:
  [2] http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/894460d22c434e73d60b71ec031611988e687c8b

Comment 13 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-05-13 09:27:28 UTC

Statement CVE-2010-1624:

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security
impact, a future pidgin package update may address this flaw in Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5.

Comment 14 Fedora Update System 2010-05-13 13:10:22 UTC

pidgin-2.7.0-1.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/pidgin-2.7.0-1.fc13

Comment 15 Fedora Update System 2010-05-13 13:10:54 UTC

pidgin-2.7.0-1.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/pidgin-2.7.0-1.fc12

Comment 16 Fedora Update System 2010-05-13 13:11:00 UTC

pidgin-2.7.0-1.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/pidgin-2.7.0-1.fc11

Comment 17 Fedora Update System 2010-05-24 19:39:25 UTC

pidgin-2.7.0-2.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 18 Fedora Update System 2010-05-24 19:41:35 UTC

pidgin-2.7.0-2.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 19 Fedora Update System 2010-05-24 19:48:08 UTC

pidgin-2.7.0-2.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 24 errata-xmlrpc 2010-10-21 16:52:17 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2010:0788 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0788.html