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Bug 1154911 - (CVE-2014-3698) CVE-2014-3698 pidgin: remote information leak via crafted XMPP message
CVE-2014-3698 pidgin: remote information leak via crafted XMPP message
Status: NEW
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
unspecified
All Linux
medium Severity medium
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Assigned To: Red Hat Product Security
impact=moderate,public=20141022,repor...
: Reopened, Security
Depends On: 1155838 1340770 1403136 1446519
Blocks: 1154913 1415638
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Reported: 2014-10-20 23:24 EDT by Murray McAllister
Modified: 2018-09-27 07:30 EDT (History)
7 users (show)

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Fixed In Version: pidgin 2.10.10
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
An information disclosure flaw was discovered in the way Pidgin parsed XMPP messages. A malicious remote server or a man-in-the-middle attacker could potentially use this flaw to disclose a portion of memory belonging to the Pidgin process by sending a specially crafted XMPP message.
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Last Closed: 2014-12-16 14:30:29 EST
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
patch from upstream (1.33 KB, patch)
2014-10-20 23:25 EDT, Murray McAllister
no flags Details | Diff


External Trackers
Tracker ID Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:1854 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: pidgin security, bug fix, and enhancement update 2017-08-01 14:23:14 EDT

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Description Murray McAllister 2014-10-20 23:24:49 EDT
A flaw was found in the way XMPP messages were parsed. A malicious server or possibly a remote attacker could send a crafted XMPP message that would cause Pidgin to send an XMPP message containing arbitrary memory.

Acknowledgements:

Name: the Pidgin project
Upstream: Thijs Alkemade, Paul Aurich
Comment 1 Murray McAllister 2014-10-20 23:25:24 EDT
Created attachment 948789 [details]
patch from upstream
Comment 3 Murray McAllister 2014-10-22 21:18:51 EDT
Public now:

http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=90
Comment 4 Murray McAllister 2014-10-22 21:27:28 EDT
Created pidgin tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1155838]
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2014-11-10 01:31:40 EST
pidgin-2.10.10-2.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2014-11-10 01:47:41 EST
pidgin-2.10.10-1.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 9 Siddharth Sharma 2014-12-16 06:29:48 EST
Analysis:

In code of jutil.c, jid being calloced, missing g_strndup would lead to NULL derefs in callers, which wont be something typically leading to info leaks and attacker wont get much even if in any scenario is able to read arbitrary memory.
Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-01 16:21:04 EDT
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2017:1854 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1854

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