CVE-2009-1375 Information

Description

The PurpleCircBuffer implementation in Pidgin (formerly Gaim) before 2.5.6 does not properly maintain a certain buffer which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via vectors involving the (1) XMPP or (2) Sametime protocol.

Reference

http://debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1805 http://osvdb.org/54649 http://secunia.com/advisories/35188 http://secunia.com/advisories/35194 http://secunia.com/advisories/35202 http://secunia.com/advisories/35215 http://secunia.com/advisories/35294 http://secunia.com/advisories/35329 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200905-07.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:173 http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=31 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1060.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35067 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-781-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1396 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500491 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50683 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10829 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg00033.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg00051.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg00075.html