<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="201206-11"> <title>Pidgin: Multiple vulnerabilities</title> <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities were found in Pidgin, the worst of which allowing for the remote execution of arbitrary code. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">Pidgin</product> <announced>2012-06-21</announced> <revised count="1">2012-06-21</revised> <bug>299751</bug> <bug>372785</bug> <bug>385073</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="net-im/pidgin" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">2.10.0-r1</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">2.10.0-r1</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p>Pidgin is an GTK Instant Messenger client.</p> </background> <description> <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Pidgin. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. </p> </description> <impact type="high"> <p>These vulnerabilities allow for arbitrary file retrieval, Denial of Service and arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user running Pidgin. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p> </workaround> <resolution> <p>All Pidgin users should upgrade to the latest version:</p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-im/pidgin-2.10.0-r1" </code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-0013">CVE-2010-0013</uri> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-2485">CVE-2011-2485</uri> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-3594">CVE-2011-3594</uri> </references> <metadata timestamp="2011-10-07T23:37:06Z" tag="requester"> keytoaster </metadata> <metadata timestamp="2012-06-21T18:17:26Z" tag="submitter">craig</metadata> </glsa>