RHSA-2014:0139Medium

Red Hat Security Advisory: pidgin security update

Published
February 5, 2014
Last Modified
November 7, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (13)

CVE-2012-6152 →CVE-2013-6477 →CVE-2013-6478 →CVE-2013-6479 →CVE-2013-6481 →CVE-2013-6482 →CVE-2013-6483 →CVE-2013-6484 →CVE-2013-6485 →CVE-2013-6487 →CVE-2013-6489 →CVE-2013-6490 →CVE-2014-0020 →

📋 Description

CVE-2012-6152 — pidgin: DoS when decoding non-UTF-8 strings in Yahoo protocol plugin CVE-2013-6477 — pidgin: DoS when handling timestamps in the XMPP plugin CVE-2013-6478 — pidgin: DoS when rendering long URLs CVE-2013-6479 — pidgin: DoS when parsing certain HTTP response headers CVE-2013-6481 — pidgin: DoS caused due to OOB read in Yahoo protocol plugin CVE-2013-6482 — pidgin: DoS via multiple null pointer dereferences in MSN protocol plugin CVE-2013-6483 — pidgin: Possible spoofing using iq replies in XMPP protocol plugin CVE-2013-6484 — pidgin: DoS via specially-crafted stun messages CVE-2013-6485 — pidgin: Heap-based buffer overflow when parsing chunked HTTP responses CVE-2013-6487 — pidgin: Heap-based buffer overflow in Gadu-Gadu protocol plugin CVE-2013-6489 — pidgin: Heap-based buffer overflow in MXit emoticon parsing CVE-2013-6490 — pidgin: Heap-based buffer overflow in SIMPLE protocol plugin CVE-2014-0020 — pidgin: DoS in IRC protocol plugin due to arguement parsing

🎯 Affected products123

  • 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 Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6)
  • finch-0:2.6.6-32.el5.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • finch-0:2.6.6-32.el5.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • finch-0:2.7.9-27.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6)
  • finch-0:2.7.9-27.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6)
  • finch-0:2.7.9-27.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6)
  • finch-0:2.7.9-27.el6.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6)
  • finch-0:2.7.9-27.el6.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6)
  • finch-0:2.7.9-27.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6)
  • finch-0:2.7.9-27.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6)
  • finch-0:2.7.9-27.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6)
  • finch-devel-0:2.6.6-32.el5.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • finch-devel-0:2.6.6-32.el5.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client)
  • finch-devel-0:2.7.9-27.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6)
  • finch-devel-0:2.7.9-27.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6)
  • finch-devel-0:2.7.9-27.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6)
  • finch-devel-0:2.7.9-27.el6.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6)
  • finch-devel-0:2.7.9-27.el6.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6)
  • finch-devel-0:2.7.9-27.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6)
  • finch-devel-0:2.7.9-27.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6)
  • finch-devel-0:2.7.9-27.el6.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6)
  • libpurple-0:2.6.6-32.el5.i386 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • libpurple-0:2.6.6-32.el5.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
  • libpurple-0:2.7.9-27.el6.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6)
  • +93 more not shown

✅ 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/site/articles/11258

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