Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2476-1 pidgin-otr -- format string vulnerability

Date Reported:
19 May 2012
Affected Packages:
pidgin-otr
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 673154.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2012-2369.
More information:

intrigeri discovered a format string error in pidgin-otr, an Off-the-Record Messaging plugin for Pidgin.

This could be exploited by a remote attacker to cause arbitrary code to be executed on the user's machine.

The problem is only in pidgin-otr. Other applications which use libotr are not affected.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 3.2.0-5+squeeze1.

For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 3.2.1-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 3.2.1-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your pidgin-otr packages.