Bug 910041 (CVE-2013-0273) - CVE-2013-0273 pidgin: Meanwhile protocol missing nul termination of long Lotus Sametime usernames
Summary: CVE-2013-0273 pidgin: Meanwhile protocol missing nul termination of long Lotu...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2013-0273
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: 910651 910652 910653 910654 910826
Blocks: 909372
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-02-11 16:49 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2023-05-12 23:49 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: pidgin 2.10.7
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2013-03-14 16:53:28 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
Local copy of (by Pidgin upstream) proposed patch to fix the CVE-2013-0273 issue (638 bytes, patch)
2013-02-11 17:04 UTC, Jan Lieskovsky 		no flags Details | Diff
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:0646 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: pidgin security update 2013-03-14 20:48:28 UTC

Description Jan Lieskovsky 2013-02-11 16:49:49 UTC 
A security flaw was found in the way Lotus Sametime support implementation of Meanwhile protocol plug-in of libPurple normalized overly long Sametime user names. A rogue server could send a specially-crafted Sametime user name that, when processed by Pidgin would lead to pidgin executable crash.

Upstream ticket:
[1] http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=67
Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2013-02-11 17:04:07 UTC 
Created attachment 696217 [details]
Local copy of (by Pidgin upstream) proposed patch to fix the CVE-2013-0273 issue
Comment 3 Jan Lieskovsky 2013-02-11 17:05:48 UTC 
This issue affects the versions of the pidgin package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

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This issue affects the versions of the pidgin package, as shipped with Fedora release of 16, 17, and 18.
Comment 7 Jan Lieskovsky 2013-02-13 16:27:42 UTC 
Created pidgin tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 910826]
Comment 8 Vincent Danen 2013-02-13 19:35:25 UTC 
External References:

http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=67
Comment 9 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-03-04 06:34:26 UTC 
Upstream patch:

http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/c31cf8de31cd
Comment 10 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-03-04 09:06:09 UTC 
Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Pidgin project for reporting this issue.
Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2013-03-14 16:50:57 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2013:0646 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0646.html
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