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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201706-10">
  <title>Pidgin: Arbitrary code execution</title>
  <synopsis>A vulnerability in Pidgin might allow remote attackers to execute
    arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">pidgin</product>
  <announced>2017-06-06</announced>
  <revised count="1">2017-06-06</revised>
  <bug>612188</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-im/pidgin" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.12.0</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.12.0</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Pidgin is a GTK Instant Messenger client for a variety of instant
      messaging protocols.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Joseph Bisch discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled certain xml
      messages.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could send a specially crafted instant message,
      possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of
      the Pidgin process.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All Pidgin users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-im/pidgin-2.12.0"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-2640">CVE-2017-2640</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-04-19T06:30:00Z">BlueKnight</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-06-06T19:36:09Z">whissi</metadata>
</glsa>
