Bug 761517 (CVE-2011-4601) - CVE-2011-4601 pidgin (libpurple): Invalid UTF-8 string handling in OSCAR messages
Summary: CVE-2011-4601 pidgin (libpurple): Invalid UTF-8 string handling in OSCAR mess...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2011-4601
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 766449 766450 766451 766452 766453 766454 833969 839013
Blocks: 761529
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-12-08 14:15 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2023-05-12 16:59 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: pidgin 2.10.1
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2011-12-14 19:31:28 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2011:1820 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: pidgin security update 2011-12-14 23:59:45 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2011:1821 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: pidgin security update 2011-12-14 23:57:37 UTC

Description Jan Lieskovsky 2011-12-08 14:15:13 UTC 
An out-of heap-based buffer read flaw was found in the way OSCAR (Open System for CommunicAtion in Realtime) protocol plug-in of Pidgin, a Gtk+ based multiprotocol instant messaging client, processed authorization denied messages, containing non-UTF-8 sequences. If a rogue server sent a specially-crafted authorization denied message, it could lead to denial of service (Pidgin crash).

Reference:
http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=57
Patch: http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/757272a78a8ca6027d518e614712c3399e34dda3
Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-12-08 14:18:13 UTC 
This issue affects the versions of the pidgin package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and 6.

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This issue affects the versions of the pidgin package, as shipped with Fedora release of 15 and 16.
Comment 3 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-12-08 14:20:53 UTC 
Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Pidgin project for reporting these issues.
Upstream acknowledges Evgeny Boger as the original reporter.
Comment 7 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-12-12 05:03:03 UTC 
Created pidgin tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 766454]
Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2011-12-14 19:06:12 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2011:1821 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1821.html
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2011-12-14 19:06:19 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 10 Fedora Update System 2012-01-05 20:54:34 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 11 Fedora Update System 2012-01-07 22:58:50 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.
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