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Pidgin MSN and XMPP Denial of Service Vulnerabilities (Windows)
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Denial of Service
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
5.0
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
11 years ago
Modified
Modified
5 years ago
Summary
This host has installed with Pidgin and is prone to denial of service vulnerabilities.
Insight
Insight
- An error in 'msn_message_parse_payload()' function handling messages with certain characters or character encodings can be exploited to cause a crash. - An error in SOCKS5 proxy handling code can be exploited to dereference an invalid pointer and cause a crash by sending multiple specially crafted file transfer requests.
Affected Software
Affected Software
Pidgin version prior 2.10.4 on Windows
Solution
Solution
Upgrade to Pidgin version 2.10.4 or later.