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Pidgin Yahoo Protocol 'YMSG' NULL Pointer Dereference Denial of Service Vulnerability (Windows)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Denial of Service

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

4.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

13 years ago

Modified

Modified

5 years ago

Summary

This host has installed with Pidgin and is prone to Denial of Service vulnerability.

Insight

Insight

The flaw is due to a NULL pointer dereference error when processing certain YMSG packets, which can be exploited to crash the process by sending specially crafted YMSG packets.

Affected Software

Affected Software

Pidgin version prior 2.6.0 through 2.7.10 on Windows

Solution

Solution

Upgrade to Pidgin version 2.7.11 or later.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)