CVE-2009-2703

2009-09-0800:00:00

ubuntu.com

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

0.005 Low

EPSS

Percentile

77.4%

JSON

libpurple/protocols/irc/msgs.c in the IRC protocol plugin in libpurple in
Pidgin before 2.6.2 allows remote IRC servers to cause a denial of service
(NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a TOPIC message that
lacks a topic string.

Bugs

<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2009-2703>

Notes

Author	Note
mdeslaur	PoC in Red Hat bug

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu8.04noarchpidgin< 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2.8UNKNOWN
ubuntu8.10noarchpidgin< 1:2.5.2-0ubuntu1.6UNKNOWN
ubuntu9.04noarchpidgin< 1:2.5.5-1ubuntu8.5UNKNOWN