Veracode Vulnerability DatabaseVERACODE:24354Denial Of Service (DoS)
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
pidgin is vulnerable to denial of service. A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way the Pidgin MSN protocol plug-in processed custom emoticon messages. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash Pidgin by sending specially-crafted emoticon messages during mutual communication.
References
developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/diff/884d44222e8c81ecec51c25e07d005e002a5479b/with/894460d22c434e73d60b71ec031611988e687c8b/libpurple/protocols/msn/slp.c
developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/894460d22c434e73d60b71ec031611988e687c8b
secunia.com/advisories/39801
secunia.com/advisories/41899
www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:097
www.pidgin.im/news/security/index.php?id=46
www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0788.html
www.securityfocus.com/bid/40138
www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1014-1
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1141
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2755
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010:0788
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-1624
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=589973
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/58559
oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18547
Related
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