Bug 902410 (CVE-2014-3696) - VUL-0: CVE-2014-3696: pidgin: denial of service parsing Groupwise server message
Summary: VUL-0: CVE-2014-3696: pidgin: denial of service parsing Groupwise server message
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2014-3696
Product: SUSE Security Incidents
Classification: Novell Products
Component: Incidents (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other Other
: P3 - Medium : Normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dominique Leuenberger
QA Contact: Security Team bot
URL: https://smash.suse.de/issue/110131/
Whiteboard: maint:released:sle11-sp3:59935
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Reported: 2014-10-23 13:21 UTC by Victor Pereira
Modified: 2017-04-04 16:13 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Found By: Security Response Team
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Description Victor Pereira 2014-10-23 13:21:00 UTC 
CVE-2014-3696:

It flaw was reported in the way Groupwise server messages were parsed. A malicious server or man-in-the-middle attacker could send a specially-crafted message that could cause Pidgin to attempt to allocate an excessive amount of memory, possibly leading to a crash.

References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1154910
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-3696
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3696
Comment 1 Swamp Workflow Management 2014-10-23 22:01:35 UTC 
bugbot adjusting priority
Comment 2 Dominique Leuenberger 2014-10-24 09:28:00 UTC 
Preparing update to 2.10.10 for openSUSE 13.1 and 12.3
Comment 5 Swamp Workflow Management 2014-11-10 12:05:42 UTC 
openSUSE-SU-2014:1376-1: An update that solves 5 vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available.

Category: security (moderate)
Bug References: 853038,874606,902408,902409,902410,902495
CVE References: CVE-2014-3694,CVE-2014-3695,CVE-2014-3696,CVE-2014-3697,CVE-2014-3698
Sources used:
openSUSE 13.1 (src):    pidgin-2.10.10-4.22.1, pidgin-branding-openSUSE-13.1-2.17.1, pidgin-otr-4.0.0-4.7.1
openSUSE 12.3 (src):    pidgin-2.10.10-4.16.1, pidgin-branding-openSUSE-12.2-4.21.1, pidgin-otr-4.0.0-2.11.1
Comment 7 Swamp Workflow Management 2014-11-12 10:06:16 UTC 
openSUSE-SU-2014:1397-1: An update that solves 5 vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available.

Category: security (moderate)
Bug References: 853038,874606,902408,902409,902410,902495
CVE References: CVE-2014-3694,CVE-2014-3695,CVE-2014-3696,CVE-2014-3697,CVE-2014-3698
Sources used:
openSUSE 13.2 (src):    pidgin-2.10.10-5.4.1, pidgin-branding-openSUSE-13.2-2.3.1
Comment 11 Swamp Workflow Management 2014-12-10 16:05:16 UTC 
SUSE-SU-2014:1615-1: An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available.

Category: security (moderate)
Bug References: 902408,902409,902410
CVE References: CVE-2014-3695,CVE-2014-3696,CVE-2014-3698
Sources used:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12 (src):    pidgin-2.10.9-8.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 (src):    pidgin-2.10.9-8.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 (src):    pidgin-2.10.9-8.1
Comment 12 Swamp Workflow Management 2014-12-12 00:05:17 UTC 
SUSE-SU-2014:1623-1: An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available.

Category: security (moderate)
Bug References: 902408,902409,902410
CVE References: CVE-2014-3695,CVE-2014-3696,CVE-2014-3698
Sources used:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP3 (src):    pidgin-2.6.6-0.25.2
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3 (src):    pidgin-2.6.6-0.25.2
Comment 13 Marcus Meissner 2015-03-05 08:05:04 UTC 
released
Comment 15 Swamp Workflow Management 2017-04-04 16:13:58 UTC 
openSUSE-SU-2017:0925-1: An update that solves four vulnerabilities and has two fixes is now available.

Category: security (moderate)
Bug References: 1009974,1028835,886670,902408,902409,902410
CVE References: CVE-2014-3695,CVE-2014-3696,CVE-2014-3698,CVE-2017-2640
Sources used:
openSUSE Leap 42.1 (src):    pidgin-2.10.11-9.1