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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.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)