The latest version of Pidgin - 2.5.1 - was released on 2008-08-31. This
must be an ancient version you've got here!
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-----Original Message-----
From: Aditya K Sood [mailto:0kn0ck@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, 17 September 2008 10:41 PM
To: bugtraq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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
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for
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