CVE-2012-2318

2012-07-0319:55:00

CWE-20

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web.nvd.nist.gov

pidgin

msn

protocol

plugin

denial of service

vulnerability

6.2 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

5 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

0.012 Low

EPSS

Percentile

85.4%

JSON

msg.c in the MSN protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.4 does not properly handle crafted characters, which allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by placing these characters in a text/plain message.

CPENameOperatorVersion
pidgin:pidginpidgineq2.5.9
pidgin:pidginpidgineq2.5.8
pidgin:pidginpidgineq2.7.9
pidgin:pidginpidgineq2.7.5
pidgin:pidginpidgineq2.7.0
pidgin:pidginpidgineq2.10.1
pidgin:pidginpidgineq2.1.0
pidgin:pidginpidgineq2.7.4
pidgin:pidginpidgineq2.6.0
pidgin:pidginpidgineq2.5.2

CPE	Name	Operator	Version
pidgin:pidgin	pidgin	eq	2.5.9
pidgin:pidgin	pidgin	eq	2.5.8
pidgin:pidgin	pidgin	eq	2.7.9
pidgin:pidgin	pidgin	eq	2.7.5
pidgin:pidgin	pidgin	eq	2.7.0
pidgin:pidgin	pidgin	eq	2.10.1
pidgin:pidgin	pidgin	eq	2.1.0
pidgin:pidgin	pidgin	eq	2.7.4
pidgin:pidgin	pidgin	eq	2.6.0
pidgin:pidgin	pidgin	eq	2.5.2