Bug 766446 (CVE-2011-4603)

Summary: CVE-2011-4603 pidgin: SILC remote crash on channel 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: daniel_atallah, deryni, eblanton, fedora, itamar, jrb, lschiere+bugs, mark, mbarnes, stu, vdanen
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OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: pidgin 2.10.1 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2011-12-14 19:28:05 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 766449, 766450, 766451, 766454, 833969    
Bug Blocks: 761529    

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-12-12 04:54:54 UTC
When receiving various incoming messages, the SILC protocol plugin failed to validate that a piece of text was UTF-8. In some cases invalid UTF-8 data would lead to a crash. This vulnerability is similar to CVE-2011-3594, but occurs in a different piece of code and was fixed at a later date.

Reference:
http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=59
Patch: http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/afb9ede3de989f217f03d5670cca00e628bd11f1

Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-12-12 05:05:59 UTC
Created pidgin tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 766454]

Comment 3 Murray McAllister 2011-12-14 05:14:37 UTC
Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Pidgin project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Diego Bauche Madero from IOActive as the original reporter.

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2011-12-14 19:06:20 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2011:1820 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1820.html

Comment 5 Vincent Danen 2011-12-14 19:28:05 UTC
Statement:

Not vulnerable.  This issue did not affect the version of pidgin as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 as it explicitly disables support for the SILC protocol.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2012-01-05 20:54:49 UTC
pidgin-2.10.1-1.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2012-01-07 22:59:06 UTC
pidgin-2.10.1-1.fc15 has been pushed to the Fedora 15 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.