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Pidgin Multiple Denial of Service Vulnerabilities -Feb13 (Windows)
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Denial of Service
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
6.8
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
11 years ago
Modified
Modified
5 years ago
Summary
This host is installed with Pidgin and is prone to multiple denial of service vulnerabilities.
Insight
Insight
Multiple flaws are due to, - MXit protocol in libpurple saves an image to local disk using a filename. - Buffer overflow in http.c via HTTP header. - Does not properly terminate long user IDs, in sametime.c in libpurple. - upnp.c in libpurple fails to null-terminate strings in UPnP responses.
Affected Software
Affected Software
Pidgin versions prior to 2.10.7
Solution
Solution
Upgrade to Pidgin version 2.10.7 or later.