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Category: SuSE Local Security Checks Risk factor: Medium Added: 5 Mar 2010
Synopsis:

The remote SuSE system is missing a security patch for finch

Description:

This update of pidgin fixes various security vulnerabilities - CVE-2010-0013: CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3: Path Traversal (CWE-22) Remote file disclosure vulnerability by using the MSN protocol.
- CVE-2010-0277: CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.9: Resource Management Errors (CWE-399) MSN protocol plugin in libpurple allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) at least. - CVE-2010-0420 Same nick names in XMPP MUC lead to a crash
in finch.
- CVE-2010-0423 A remote denial of service attack (resource consumption) is possible by sending an IM with a lot of smilies in it.

See also:

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=569616
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=567799
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-0277
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-0013
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-0420
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-0423

Solution:

Run yast to install the security patch for finch

Risk factor:

Medium / CVSS Base Score : 5.0
(CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)