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RE: Pidgin IM Client Password Disclosure Vulnerability.
From: "Quark IT - Hilton Travis" <Hilton () QuarkIT com au>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:40:45 +1000
The latest version of Pidgin - 2.5.1 - was released on 2008-08-31. This must be an ancient version you've got here! -- http://blog.hiltontravis.com/ Regards, Hilton Travis Phone: +61 (0)7 3105 9101 (Brisbane, Australia) Phone: +61 (0)419 792 394 Manager, Quark IT http://www.quarkit.com.au Quark Group http://www.quarkgroup.com.au Microsoft SBSC PAL (Australia) http://www.sbscpal.com/ War doesn't determine who is right. War determines who is left. This document and any attachments are for the intended recipient only. It may contain confidential, privileged or copyright material which must not be disclosed or distributed. Quark Group Pty. Ltd. T/A Quark Automation, Quark AudioVisual, Quark IT
-----Original Message----- From: Aditya K Sood [mailto:0kn0ck () secniche org] Sent: Wednesday, 17 September 2008 10:41 PM To: bugtraq () securityfocus com Subject: Pidgin IM Client Password Disclosure Vulnerability. Pidgin IM Client Password Disclosure Vulnerability. *Version Affected:* 0.7.10 Unicode / Previous version can be affected. *Release Date:* 11 September 2008 *About:* Pidgin is a graphical modular messaging client based on libpurple
which
is capable of connecting to AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, XMPP, ICQ, IRC, SILC, SIP/SIMPLE, Novell GroupWise, Lotus Sametime, Bonjour, Zephyr, MySpaceIM, Gadu-Gadu, and QQ all at once. It is written using GTK+. *Description:* The pidgin client inherits client side password disclosure vulnerability. The credentials used to connect to the required service i.e. username and password is not encrypted properly. The credentials can be extracted in clear text by dumping process memory of the live pidgin process when a connection is set. The vulnerability allows anyone with access to the client system to obtain the username and password. Additionally, this vulnerability could also be exploited by fooling
the
user to execute malicious code which would dump the memory of the process "pidgin.exe".. *Proof of Concept:* http://evilfingers.com/advisory/pidgin_password_disc_vuln.pdf http://secniche/advisory/pidgin_vul.pdf * <cid:part1.02090307.09020405@secniche.org>* *Links: * http://secniche.org/advisory.html http://evilfingers.com/advisory/index.php * Credit:* Aditya K Sood *Disclaimer* The information in the advisory is believed to be accurate at the time of publishing based on currently available information. Use of the information constitutes acceptance for use in an AS IS condition. There is no representation or warranties, either express or implied by or with respect to anything in this document, and shall not be liable for a ny implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose or for any indirect special or consequential damages.
Current thread:
- Pidgin IM Client Password Disclosure Vulnerability. Aditya K Sood (Sep 17)
- RE: Pidgin IM Client Password Disclosure Vulnerability. Quark IT - Hilton Travis (Sep 18)
- Re: Pidgin IM Client Password Disclosure Vulnerability. Aditya K Sood (Sep 18)
- RE: Pidgin IM Client Password Disclosure Vulnerability. Quark IT - Hilton Travis (Sep 19)
- Re: Pidgin IM Client Password Disclosure Vulnerability. Aditya K Sood (Sep 18)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Pidgin IM Client Password Disclosure Vulnerability. Memisyazici, Aras (Sep 18)
- Re: Pidgin IM Client Password Disclosure Vulnerability. John Bailey (Sep 19)
- RE: Pidgin IM Client Password Disclosure Vulnerability. Memisyazici, Aras (Sep 19)
- Re: Pidgin IM Client Password Disclosure Vulnerability. John Bailey (Sep 19)
- Re: Pidgin IM Client Password Disclosure Vulnerability. John Bailey (Sep 19)
- Re: Pidgin IM Client Password Disclosure Vulnerability. Steve Shockley (Sep 19)
- RE: Pidgin IM Client Password Disclosure Vulnerability. Quark IT - Hilton Travis (Sep 18)