Veracode Vulnerability DatabaseVERACODE:24764Denial Of Service (DoS)
4.3 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
pidgin is vulnerable to denial of service (DoS). The vulnerability exists as an input sanitization flaw was found in the way the Pidgin SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) protocol plug-in escaped certain UTF-8 characters. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash Pidgin via a specially-crafted SILC message.
References
developer.pidgin.im/ticket/14636
developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/diff/be5e66abad2af29604bc794cc4c6600ab12751f3/with/7eb1f6d56cc58bbb5b56b7df53955d36b9b419b8
pidgin.im/news/security/?id=56
secunia.com/advisories/46376
www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:183
www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1371.html
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011:1371
access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=743481
oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18034
Related
4.3 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P