CVE-2013-6485: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Buffer overflow in util.c in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 allows remote HTTP servers to cause a denial of service application crash or possibly have unspecified other impact via an invalid chunk-size field in chunked transfer-coding data...

CVE-2013-6484: Improper Input Validation

The STUN protocol implementation in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 allows remote STUN servers to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds write operation and application crash by triggering a socket read error...

CVE-2013-6490: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

The SIMPLE protocol functionality in Pidgin before 2.10.8 allows remote attackers to have an unspecified impact via a negative Content-Length header, which triggers a buffer overflow...

CVE-2013-6487: Undefined Security Weakness

Integer overflow in libpurple/protocols/gg/lib/http.c in the Gadu-Gadu gg parser in Pidgin before 2.10.8 allows remote attackers to have an unspecified impact via a large Content-Length value, which triggers a buffer overflow...

finch, libpurple, pidgin security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2014:0139 Updated pidgin packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVS...

pidgin: DoS when handling timestamps in the XMPP plugin

Multiple integer signedness errors in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via a crafted timestamp value in an XMPP message...

pidgin: DoS via multiple null pointer dereferences in MSN protocol plugin

Pidgin before 2.10.8 allows remote MSN servers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and crash via a crafted 1 SOAP response, 2 OIM XML response, or 3 Content-Length header...

pidgin: DoS when rendering long URLs

gtkimhtml.c in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not properly interact with underlying library support for wide Pango layouts, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via a long URL that is examined with a tooltip...

pidgin: Heap-based buffer overflow in MXit emoticon parsing

Integer signedness error in the MXit functionality in Pidgin before 2.10.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service segmentation fault via a crafted emoticon value, which triggers an integer overflow and a buffer overflow...

pidgin: DoS in IRC protocol plugin due to arguement parsing

The IRC protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not validate argument counts, which allows remote IRC servers to cause a denial of service application crash via a crafted message...

pidgin: DoS when parsing certain HTTP response headers

util.c in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not properly allocate memory for HTTP responses that are inconsistent with the Content-Length header, which allows remote HTTP servers to cause a denial of service application crash via a crafted response...

pidgin: DoS caused due to OOB read in Yahoo protocol plugin

libpurple/protocols/yahoo/libymsg.c in Pidgin before 2.10.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash via a Yahoo! P2P message with a crafted length field, which triggers a buffer over-read...

pidgin: Possible spoofing using iq replies in XMPP protocol plugin

The XMPP protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not properly determine whether the from address in an iq reply is consistent with the to address in an iq request, which allows remote attackers to spoof iq traffic or cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and...

pidgin: DoS via specially-crafted stun messages

The STUN protocol implementation in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 allows remote STUN servers to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds write operation and application crash by triggering a socket read error...

pidgin: DoS when decoding non-UTF-8 strings in Yahoo protocol plugin

The Yahoo! protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not properly validate UTF-8 data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via crafted byte sequences...

pidgin: Heap-based buffer overflow when parsing chunked HTTP responses

Buffer overflow in util.c in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 allows remote HTTP servers to cause a denial of service application crash or possibly have unspecified other impact via an invalid chunk-size field in chunked transfer-coding data...

pidgin: Heap-based buffer overflow in SIMPLE protocol plugin

The SIMPLE protocol functionality in Pidgin before 2.10.8 allows remote attackers to have an unspecified impact via a negative Content-Length header, which triggers a buffer overflow...

pidgin: Heap-based buffer overflow in Gadu-Gadu protocol plugin

Integer overflow in libpurple/protocols/gg/lib/http.c in the Gadu-Gadu gg parser in Pidgin before 2.10.8 allows remote attackers to have an unspecified impact via a large Content-Length value, which triggers a buffer overflow...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: pidgin security update

Updated pidgin packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings...

MGASA-2014-0034 Updated pidgin package fixes security vulnerabilities

Many places in the Yahoo! protocol plugin assumed incoming strings were UTF-8 and failed to transcode from non-UTF-8 encodings. This can lead to a crash when receiving strings that aren't UTF-8 CVE-2012-6152. A remote XMPP user can trigger a crash on some systems by sending a message with a...