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Pidgin MSN SLP Packets Denial Of Service Vulnerability (Linux)
Information
Severity
Severity
Critical
Family
Family
Denial of Service
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
10.0
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
13 years ago
Modified
Modified
4 years ago
Summary
This host has Pidgin installed and is prone to Denial of Service vulnerability.
Insight
Insight
An error in the 'msn_slplink_process_msg()' function while processing malformed MSN SLP packets which can be exploited to overwrite an arbitrary memory location.
Affected Software
Affected Software
Pidgin version prior to 2.5.9 on Linux.
Solution
Solution
Upgrade to Pidgin version 2.5.9.