CVE-2008-2955: Improper Input Validation

Pidgin 2.4.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash via a long filename that contains certain characters, as demonstrated using an MSN message that triggers the crash in the msnslplinkprocessmsg function...

CVE-2008-2956: Undefined Security Weakness

Memory leak in Pidgin 2.0.0, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption via malformed XML documents. NOTE: this issue has been disputed by the upstream vendor, who states: "I was never able to identify a scenario under which a problem...

CVE-2008-2956

Memory leak in Pidgin 2.0.0, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption via malformed XML documents. NOTE: this issue has been disputed by the upstream vendor, who states: "I was never able to identify a scenario under which a problem...

Pidgin 2.4.1 Vulnerability

Application: Pidgin 2.4.1 OS: Linux - Ubuntu 8.04 ------------------------------------------------------ 1 - Description 2 - Vulnerability 3 - POC/EXPLOIT ------------------------------------------------------ Description Pidgin is an instant messaging program with which you can use a number of...

Ubuntu 7.10 : pidgin vulnerability (USN-548-1)

It was discovered that Pidgin did not correctly handle certain logging events. A remote attacker could send specially crafted messages and cause the application to crash, leading to a denial of service. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from...

USN-548-1: Pidgin vulnerability

It was discovered that Pidgin did not correctly handle certain logging events. A remote attacker could send specially crafted messages and cause the application to crash, leading to a denial of service...

openSUSE 10 Security Update : libpurple (libpurple-4671)

This update fixes a crash in pidgin when specifying invalid HMTL. CVE-2007-4999 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from openSUSE Security Update libpurple-4671. The text description of this plugin is C SUSE LL...

Fedora 7 : pidgin-2.2.2-1.fc7 (2007-2714)

2.2.2 and CVE-2007-4999 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable...

Fedora 7 : pidgin-2.2.1-1.fc7 (2007-2368)

Minor DOS fix and a great many other bug fixes in upstream's 2.2.1 release. http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog Upstream changelog. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to...

[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: pidgin-2.2.2-1.fc7

Pidgin allows you to talk to anyone using a variety of messaging protocols including AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, Jabber, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, ICQ, IRC, Novell Groupwise, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, Simple and Zephyr. These protocols are implemented using a modular, easy to use design. To use a protocol, just...

Design/Logic Flaw

libpurple in Pidgin 2.1.0 through 2.2.1, when using HTML logging, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL dereference and application crash via a message that contains invalid HTML data, a different vector than CVE-2007-4996...

CVE-2007-4999

libpurple in Pidgin 2.1.0 through 2.2.1, when using HTML logging, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL dereference and application crash via a message that contains invalid HTML data, a different vector than CVE-2007-4996...

DEBIAN-CVE-2007-4999

libpurple in Pidgin 2.1.0 through 2.2.1, when using HTML logging, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL dereference and application crash via a message that contains invalid HTML data, a different vector than CVE-2007-4996...

CVE-2007-4999

libpurple in Pidgin 2.1.0 through 2.2.1, when using HTML logging, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL dereference and application crash via a message that contains invalid HTML data, a different vector than CVE-2007-4996...

CVE-2007-4999

libpurple in Pidgin 2.1.0 through 2.2.1, when using HTML logging, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL dereference and application crash via a message that contains invalid HTML data, a different vector than CVE-2007-4996...

CVE-2007-4999

libpurple in Pidgin 2.1.0 through 2.2.1, when using HTML logging, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL dereference and application crash via a message that contains invalid HTML data, a different vector than CVE-2007-4996...

CVE-2007-4999

CVE-2007-4999 affects libpurple/Pidgin versions 2.1.0–2.2.1 with HTML logging enabled. The issue causes a NULL dereference and application crash when processing messages containing invalid HTML data, resulting in denial of service. Public references in OpenVAS/Ubuntu/Fedora/openSUSE advisories in...

CVE-2007-4999

libpurple in Pidgin 2.1.0 through 2.2.1, when using HTML logging, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL dereference and application crash via a message that contains invalid HTML data, a different vector than CVE-2007-4996...

CVE-2007-4999: Improper Input Validation

libpurple in Pidgin 2.1.0 through 2.2.1, when using HTML logging, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL dereference and application crash via a message that contains invalid HTML data, a different vector than CVE-2007-4996...

Design/Logic Flaw

Rails before 1.2.4, as used for Ruby on Rails, allows remote attackers and ActiveResource servers to determine the existence of arbitrary files and read arbitrary XML files via the Hash.fromxml Hashfromxml method, which uses XmlSimple XML::Simple unsafely, as demonstrated by reading passwords fro...