SUSE-SU-2014:0702-1: moderate: Security update for finch

[sle-security-updates at lists.suse.com]

   SUSE Security Update: Security update for finch
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Announcement ID:    SUSE-SU-2014:0702-1
Rating:             moderate
References:         #861019 
Cross-References:   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-2013-6486 CVE-2013-6487 CVE-2013-6489
                    CVE-2013-6490 CVE-2014-0020
Affected Products:
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP3
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3
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   An update that fixes 14 vulnerabilities is now available.

Description:


   The pidgin Instant Messenger has been updated to fix various security
   issues:

       * CVE-2014-0020: Remotely triggerable crash in IRC argument parsing
       * CVE-2013-6490: Buffer overflow in SIMPLE header parsing
       * CVE-2013-6489: Buffer overflow in MXit emoticon parsing
       * CVE-2013-6487: Buffer overflow in Gadu-Gadu HTTP parsing
       * CVE-2013-6486: Pidgin uses clickable links to untrusted executables
       * CVE-2013-6485: Buffer overflow parsing chunked HTTP responses
       * CVE-2013-6484: Crash reading response from STUN server
       * CVE-2013-6483: XMPP doesn't verify 'from' on some iq replies
       * CVE-2013-6482: NULL pointer dereference parsing SOAP data in MSN
       * CVE-2013-6482: NULL pointer dereference parsing OIM data in MSN
       * CVE-2013-6482: NULL pointer dereference parsing headers in MSN
       * CVE-2013-6481: Remote crash reading Yahoo! P2P message
       * CVE-2013-6479: Remote crash parsing HTTP responses
       * CVE-2013-6478: Crash when hovering pointer over a long URL
       * CVE-2013-6477: Crash handling bad XMPP timestamp
       * CVE-2012-6152: Yahoo! remote crash from incorrect character encoding

   Security Issue references:

       * CVE-2014-0020
         <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-0020>
       * CVE-2013-6490
         <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6490>
       * CVE-2013-6489
         <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6489>
       * CVE-2013-6487
         <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6487>
       * CVE-2013-6486
         <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6486>
       * CVE-2013-6485
         <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6485>
       * CVE-2013-6484
         <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6484>
       * CVE-2013-6483
         <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6483>
       * CVE-2013-6482
         <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6482>
       * CVE-2013-6481
         <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6481>
       * CVE-2013-6479
         <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6479>
       * CVE-2013-6478
         <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6478>
       * CVE-2013-6477
         <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6477>
       * CVE-2012-6152
         <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-6152>


Patch Instructions:

   To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
   Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP3:

      zypper in -t patch sdksp3-finch-9213

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3:

      zypper in -t patch sledsp3-finch-9213

   To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".


Package List:

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP3 (i586 ia64 ppc64 s390x x86_64):

      finch-2.6.6-0.23.1
      finch-devel-2.6.6-0.23.1
      libpurple-2.6.6-0.23.1
      libpurple-devel-2.6.6-0.23.1
      libpurple-lang-2.6.6-0.23.1
      pidgin-2.6.6-0.23.1
      pidgin-devel-2.6.6-0.23.1

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3 (i586 x86_64):

      finch-2.6.6-0.23.1
      libpurple-2.6.6-0.23.1
      libpurple-lang-2.6.6-0.23.1
      libpurple-meanwhile-2.6.6-0.23.1
      libpurple-tcl-2.6.6-0.23.1
      pidgin-2.6.6-0.23.1


References:

   http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-6152.html
   http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-6477.html
   http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-6478.html
   http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-6479.html
   http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-6481.html
   http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-6482.html
   http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-6483.html
   http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-6484.html
   http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-6485.html
   http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-6486.html
   http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-6487.html
   http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-6489.html
   http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-6490.html
   http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-0020.html
   https://bugzilla.novell.com/861019
   http://download.suse.com/patch/finder/?keywords=eceeb6030f253e0d89f34ec993eac991