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HistoryJul 03, 2012 - 12:00 a.m.

CVE-2012-2214

2012-07-0300:00:00
ubuntu.com
ubuntu.com
13

3.5 Low

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

SINGLE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

0.003 Low

EPSS

Percentile

70.2%

proxy.c in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.4 does not properly handle
canceled SOCKS5 connection attempts, which allows user-assisted remote
authenticated users to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a
sequence of XMPP file-transfer requests.

Bugs

Notes

Author Note
jdstrand claimed to be fixed in 2.10.4
tyhicks After my code review and upstreamโ€™s confirmation, the vulnerability was introduced sometime after 2.7.11. Upstream believes it was introduced in changeset 31742:e6eb15f2734b
OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu11.10noarchpidgin<ย 1:2.10.0-0ubuntu2.1UNKNOWN
ubuntu12.04noarchpidgin<ย 1:2.10.3-0ubuntu1.1UNKNOWN

3.5 Low

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

SINGLE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

0.003 Low

EPSS

Percentile

70.2%