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Pidgin Oscar Protocol Denial of Service Vulnerability (Linux)
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
14 years ago
Modified
Modified
5 years ago
Summary
This host has Pidgin installed and is prone to Denial of Service vulnerability.
Insight
Insight
This issue is caused by an error in the Oscar protocol plugin when processing malformed ICQ or AIM contacts sent by the SIM IM client, which could cause an invalid memory access leading to a crash.
Affected Software
Affected Software
Pidgin version prior to 2.6.3 on Linux.
Solution
Solution
Upgrade to Pidgin version 2.6.3.