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USN-3031-1: Pidgin vulnerabilities

USN-3031-1: Pidgin vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3031-1

12th July, 2016

pidgin vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:

Summary

Pidgin could be made to crash or run programs if it received
specially crafted network traffic.

Software description

Details

Yves Younan discovered that Pidgin contained multiple issues in the MXit
protocol support. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Pidgin to
crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary
code.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package version:

Ubuntu 15.10:
libpurple0

1:2.10.11-0ubuntu4.2
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
libpurple0

1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.3
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
libpurple0

1:2.10.3-0ubuntu1.7

To update your system, please follow these instructions:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

After a standard system update you need to restart Pidgin to make all the
necessary changes.

References

CVE-2016-2365,

CVE-2016-2366,

CVE-2016-2367,

CVE-2016-2368,

CVE-2016-2369,

CVE-2016-2370,

CVE-2016-2371,

CVE-2016-2372,

CVE-2016-2373,

CVE-2016-2374,

CVE-2016-2375,

CVE-2016-2376,

CVE-2016-2377,

CVE-2016-2378,

CVE-2016-2380,

CVE-2016-4323

Source: USN-3031-1: Pidgin vulnerabilities

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