Pidgin Libpurple Protocol Plugins Denial of Service Vulnerabilities (Windows)

This host is installed with Pidgin and is prone to denial of service vulnerabilities. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbpidginlibpurpleprotocolpluginsdosvulnwin.nasl 7024 2017-08-30 11:51:43Z teissa $ Pidgin Libpurple Protocol Plugins Denial of Service Vulnerabilities Windows Authors: Rachana...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : pidgin (MDVSA-2011:132-1)

Multiple vulnerabilities has been identified and fixed in pidgin : It was found that the gdk-pixbuf GIF image loader routine gdkpixbufgifimageload did not properly handle certain return values from its subroutines. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted GIF image, which, once opened ...

PT-2011-4296

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Pidgin versions prior to 2.10.0 Description The issue is related to the msn httpconn parse data function in the MSN protocol plugin, which does not properly handle HTTP 100 responses. This allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service,...