Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.881235
Category:	CentOS Local Security Checks
Title:	CentOS Update for finch CESA-2012:1102 centos6
Summary:	The remote host is missing an update for the 'finch'; package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing an update for the 'finch' package(s) announced via the referenced advisory. Vulnerability Insight: Pidgin is an instant messaging program which can log in to multiple accounts on multiple instant messaging networks simultaneously. A flaw was found in the way the Pidgin MSN protocol plug-in processed text that was not encoded in UTF-8. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash Pidgin by sending a specially-crafted MSN message. (CVE-2012-1178) An input validation flaw was found in the way the Pidgin MSN protocol plug-in handled MSN notification messages. A malicious server or a remote attacker could use this flaw to crash Pidgin by sending a specially-crafted MSN notification message. (CVE-2012-2318) A buffer overflow flaw was found in the Pidgin MXit protocol plug-in. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash Pidgin by sending a MXit message containing specially-crafted emoticon tags. (CVE-2012-3374) Red Hat would like to thank the Pidgin project for reporting the CVE-2012-3374 issue. Upstream acknowledges Ulf Härnhammar as the original reporter of CVE-2012-3374. All Pidgin users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues. Pidgin must be restarted for this update to take effect. Affected Software/OS: finch on CentOS 6 Solution: Please install the updated packages. CVSS Score: 7.5 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2012-1178 BugTraq ID: 52475 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52475 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:029 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18019 RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2012:1102 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1102.html http://secunia.com/advisories/50005 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2012-2318 BugTraq ID: 53400 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53400 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:082 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17448 SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2012:0866 (Google Search) https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15136503 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2012-3374 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:105 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17678 SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SU-2012:0890 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-07/msg00009.html
Copyright	Copyright (c) 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH

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