Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-2115
Advisory Release Date: 2023-07-05 22:01 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-07-19 22:27 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
An issue was discovered in Pidgin before 2.14.9. A remote attacker who can spoof DNS responses can redirect a client connection to a malicious server. The client will perform TLS certificate verification of the malicious domain name instead of the original XMPP service domain, allowing the attacker to take over control over the XMPP connection and to obtain user credentials and all communication content. This is similar to CVE-2022-24968. (CVE-2022-26491)
Affected Packages:
pidgin
Note:
This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.
Issue Correction:
Run yum update pidgin to update your system.
New Packages:
aarch64:
pidgin-2.10.11-9.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
pidgin-devel-2.10.11-9.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
pidgin-perl-2.10.11-9.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
libpurple-2.10.11-9.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
libpurple-devel-2.10.11-9.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
libpurple-perl-2.10.11-9.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
libpurple-tcl-2.10.11-9.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
finch-2.10.11-9.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
finch-devel-2.10.11-9.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
pidgin-debuginfo-2.10.11-9.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
i686:
pidgin-2.10.11-9.amzn2.0.1.i686
pidgin-devel-2.10.11-9.amzn2.0.1.i686
pidgin-perl-2.10.11-9.amzn2.0.1.i686
libpurple-2.10.11-9.amzn2.0.1.i686
libpurple-devel-2.10.11-9.amzn2.0.1.i686
libpurple-perl-2.10.11-9.amzn2.0.1.i686
libpurple-tcl-2.10.11-9.amzn2.0.1.i686
finch-2.10.11-9.amzn2.0.1.i686
finch-devel-2.10.11-9.amzn2.0.1.i686
pidgin-debuginfo-2.10.11-9.amzn2.0.1.i686
src:
pidgin-2.10.11-9.amzn2.0.1.src
x86_64:
pidgin-2.10.11-9.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
pidgin-devel-2.10.11-9.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
pidgin-perl-2.10.11-9.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
libpurple-2.10.11-9.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
libpurple-devel-2.10.11-9.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
libpurple-perl-2.10.11-9.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
libpurple-tcl-2.10.11-9.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
finch-2.10.11-9.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
finch-devel-2.10.11-9.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
pidgin-debuginfo-2.10.11-9.amzn2.0.1.x86_64