RHSA-2012:1102Medium

Red Hat Security Advisory: pidgin security update

Published
July 19, 2012
Last Modified
June 25, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (3)

CVE-2012-1178 →CVE-2012-2318 →CVE-2012-3374 →

📋 Description

CVE-2012-1178 — pidgin: Client abort in the MSN protocol plug-in by attempt to display certain, not UTF-8 encoded text CVE-2012-2318 — pidgin: Improper validation of incoming plaintext messages in MSN protocol plug-in CVE-2012-3374 — pidgin: Stack-based buffer overwrite in MXit protocol libPurple plug-in

🎯 Affected products145

  • RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • RHEL Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6)
  • finch-0:2.6.6-11.el5.4.i386 as a component of RHEL Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server)
  • finch-0:2.6.6-11.el5.4.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • finch-0:2.6.6-11.el5.4.x86_64 as a component of RHEL Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server)
  • finch-0:2.6.6-11.el5.4.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • finch-0:2.7.9-5.el6.2.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6)
  • finch-0:2.7.9-5.el6.2.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6)
  • finch-0:2.7.9-5.el6.2.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6)
  • finch-0:2.7.9-5.el6.2.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6)
  • finch-0:2.7.9-5.el6.2.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6)
  • finch-0:2.7.9-5.el6.2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6)
  • finch-0:2.7.9-5.el6.2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6)
  • finch-0:2.7.9-5.el6.2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6)
  • finch-devel-0:2.6.6-11.el5.4.i386 as a component of RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • finch-devel-0:2.6.6-11.el5.4.i386 as a component of RHEL Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server)
  • finch-devel-0:2.6.6-11.el5.4.x86_64 as a component of RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • finch-devel-0:2.6.6-11.el5.4.x86_64 as a component of RHEL Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server)
  • finch-devel-0:2.7.9-5.el6.2.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6)
  • finch-devel-0:2.7.9-5.el6.2.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6)
  • finch-devel-0:2.7.9-5.el6.2.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6)
  • finch-devel-0:2.7.9-5.el6.2.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6)
  • finch-devel-0:2.7.9-5.el6.2.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6)
  • finch-devel-0:2.7.9-5.el6.2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6)
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✅ Remediation

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

🔗 References (6)