Bug 1430019 (CVE-2017-2640) - CVE-2017-2640 pidgin: Out-of-bounds write in purple_markup_unescape_entity triggered by invalid XML
Summary: CVE-2017-2640 pidgin: Out-of-bounds write in purple_markup_unescape_entity tr...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2017-2640
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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: 1428500 (view as bug list)
Depends On: 1431018 1431022
Blocks: 1415638 1428501 1430021
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Reported: 2017-03-07 16:41 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2021-02-17 02:29 UTC (History)
11 users (show)

Fixed In Version: pidgin 2.12.0
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An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in the way Pidgin processed XML content. A malicious remote server could potentially use this flaw to crash Pidgin or execute arbitrary code in the context of the pidgin process.
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Last Closed: 2018-04-25 11:26:11 UTC
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Upstream patch (1.09 KB, patch)
2017-03-07 16:53 UTC, Adam Mariš 		no flags Details | Diff
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:1854 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: pidgin security, bug fix, and enhancement update 2017-08-01 18:23:14 UTC

Description Adam Mariš 2017-03-07 16:41:12 UTC 
An out-of-bounds write vulnerability was found in purple_markup_unescape_entity. It can be triggered by sending invalid XML entities separated by whitespace, eg "ஸ". In default installation, this can get called only when receiving data from a server.

Upstream patch(es):

https://bitbucket.org/pidgin/main/commits/6745ecd124da91d6711ebab8812247bcd785939a
https://bitbucket.org/pidgin/main/commits/b2fc9e774cb9bf6bffcafa156c14a4c7b3640837
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2017-03-07 16:41:19 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: the Pidgin project
Comment 2 Adam Mariš 2017-03-07 16:53:25 UTC 
Created attachment 1260886 [details]
Upstream patch
Comment 3 Dhiru Kholia 2017-03-10 08:24:24 UTC 
Created pidgin tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1431018]
Comment 4 Dhiru Kholia 2017-03-10 08:25:17 UTC 
Public via https://pidgin.im/news/security/ page.
Comment 7 Andrej Nemec 2017-03-10 08:55:00 UTC 
*** Bug 1428500 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Debarshi Ray 2017-03-28 12:43:38 UTC 
Upstream fixes (from the Git mirror):

commit 2f79c62fde05b7e24dfaa421a03529ec593a7190
Author: Eion Robb <eionrobb>
Date:   Mon Feb 20 21:05:32 2017 +0000

    Use the more robust entity processing that @dequisdequis came up with
    
    --HG--
    branch : EionRobb/fix-for-crash-when-sending-invalid-xml-e-1487474010880

commit f2e987f01f58202d8a9b665eb1d8e1152fe399a2
Author: Eion Robb <eionrobb>
Date:   Sun Feb 19 03:13:47 2017 +0000

    Fix for crash when sending invalid xml entities separated by whitespace, eg "&# 3000;"
    
    --HG--
    branch : EionRobb/fix-for-crash-when-sending-invalid-xml-e-1487474010880
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-01 20:21:11 UTC 
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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