what you don't know can hurt you
Home Files News &[SERVICES_TAB]About Contact Add New

Adium 1.5.10.2 libpurple Code Execution

Adium 1.5.10.2 libpurple Code Execution
Posted Mar 21, 2017
Authored by Eryt

Adium version 1.5.10.2 includes a vulnerable version of libpurple that permits for arbitrary code execution on the client.

tags | advisory, arbitrary, code execution
advisories | CVE-2017-2640
SHA-256 | ecda5b423632c41687024c6a3f6d0c1f5e08a999e78e7e3f2993c4210cff312b

Adium 1.5.10.2 libpurple Code Execution

Change Mirror Download
Adium is a popular instant messaging client for MacOS (OSX) that
incorporates libpurple. The current release (1.5.10.2) is vulnerable
to CVE-2017-2640 in libpurple, which permits execution of arbitrary
code on the client.

The Adium team has been aware of the vulnerability since at least
March 15, but has not released an advisory to its users, for reasons
unknown.

A post to the official developer's mailing list, which included
vulnerability information and queries about Adium's process for
handling upstream advisories from libpurple, has gone unanswered.
Adium's build process documentation does not seem to include steps for
upgrading or rebuilding libpurple, and the copy of libpurple checked
into Adium's open-source repository as a binary blob of unknown
provenance.

Eryt


Login or Register to add favorites

File Archive:

April 2024

  • Su
  • Mo
  • Tu
  • We
  • Th
  • Fr
  • Sa
  • 1
    Apr 1st
    10 Files
  • 2
    Apr 2nd
    26 Files
  • 3
    Apr 3rd
    40 Files
  • 4
    Apr 4th
    6 Files
  • 5
    Apr 5th
    26 Files
  • 6
    Apr 6th
    0 Files
  • 7
    Apr 7th
    0 Files
  • 8
    Apr 8th
    22 Files
  • 9
    Apr 9th
    14 Files
  • 10
    Apr 10th
    10 Files
  • 11
    Apr 11th
    13 Files
  • 12
    Apr 12th
    14 Files
  • 13
    Apr 13th
    0 Files
  • 14
    Apr 14th
    0 Files
  • 15
    Apr 15th
    30 Files
  • 16
    Apr 16th
    10 Files
  • 17
    Apr 17th
    22 Files
  • 18
    Apr 18th
    45 Files
  • 19
    Apr 19th
    8 Files
  • 20
    Apr 20th
    0 Files
  • 21
    Apr 21st
    0 Files
  • 22
    Apr 22nd
    11 Files
  • 23
    Apr 23rd
    68 Files
  • 24
    Apr 24th
    23 Files
  • 25
    Apr 25th
    16 Files
  • 26
    Apr 26th
    0 Files
  • 27
    Apr 27th
    0 Files
  • 28
    Apr 28th
    0 Files
  • 29
    Apr 29th
    0 Files
  • 30
    Apr 30th
    0 Files

Top Authors In Last 30 Days

File Tags

Systems

packet storm

© 2022 Packet Storm. All rights reserved.

Services
Security Services
Hosting By
Rokasec
close