CVE-2010-4528

medium

Description

directconn.c in the MSN protocol plugin in libpurple 2.7.6 through 2.7.8 in Pidgin before 2.7.9 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a short p2pv2 packet in a DirectConnect (aka direct connection) session.

References

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18461

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=665421

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0076

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0054

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0028

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45581

http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=49

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/31/5

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/27/1

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:259

http://secunia.com/advisories/42877

http://secunia.com/advisories/42824

http://secunia.com/advisories/42732

http://pidgin.im/pipermail/support/2010-December/009251.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00003.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/052905.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/052862.html

http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/aaa07bde3c51d3684391ae6ed86b6dbaeab5d031

http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/diff/e76f4ad4ef2f10588195a0eedc7a08f82062f79c/with/aaa07bde3c51d3684391ae6ed86b6dbaeab5d031/libpurple/protocols/msn/directconn.c

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2011-01-07

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium