CVE-2010-3711

Description

libpurple in Pidgin before 2.7.4 does not properly validate the return value of the purple_base64_decode function, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted message, related to the plugins for MSN, MySpaceIM, XMPP, and Yahoo! and the NTLM authentication support.

References

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18506

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/62708

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=641921

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2870

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2851

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2847

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2755

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2754

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2753

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1014-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44283

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0890.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0788.html

http://www.osvdb.org/68773

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:208

http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2010&m=slackware-security.462352

http://securitytracker.com/id?1024623

http://secunia.com/advisories/42294

http://secunia.com/advisories/42075

http://secunia.com/advisories/41899

http://secunia.com/advisories/41893

http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=48

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/050133.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050695.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050227.html

http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/b01c6a1f7fe4d86b83f5f10917b3cb713989cfcc

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3