Bug 1316427 (CVE-2015-8833) - CVE-2015-8833 pidgin-otr: heap use after free vulnerability
Summary: CVE-2015-8833 pidgin-otr: heap use after free vulnerability
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2015-8833
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: 1316428 1316429
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-03-10 08:40 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2021-02-17 04:11 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: pidgin-otr 4.0.3
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:49:33 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-03-10 08:40:40 UTC
The pidgin-otr plugin version 4.0.2 fixes a heap use after free error. The bug is triggered when a user tries to authenticate a buddy and happens in the function create_smp_dialog.

External references:

https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/39-Heap-use-after-free-in-Pidgin-OTR-plugin.html
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q1/572

Upstream bug report:

https://bugs.otr.im/issues/88

Upstream fix:

https://bugs.otr.im/projects/pidgin-otr/repository/revisions/aaf551b9dd5cbba8c4abaa3d4dc7ead860efef94

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2016-03-10 08:41:08 UTC
Created pidgin-otr tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1316428]
Affects: epel-6 [bug 1316429]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 02:49:33 UTC
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.


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