Vulnerability CVE-2016-1000030
Published: 2018-09-05

Description:
Pidgin version <2.11.0 contains a vulnerability in X.509 Certificates imports specifically due to improper check of return values from gnutls_x509_crt_init() and gnutls_x509_crt_import() that can result in code execution. This attack appear to be exploitable via custom X.509 certificate from another client. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 2.11.0.

Type:

CWE-295

 (Certificate Issues)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
SUSE -> Linux enterprise server 
Pidgin -> Pidgin 

 References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-1000030
https://bitbucket.org/pidgin/main/commits/d6fc1ce76ffe
https://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=91
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-38
https://www.suse.com/pt-br/security/cve/CVE-2016-1000030/
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