CVE-2013-6478

critical

Description

gtkimhtml.c in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not properly interact with underlying library support for wide Pango layouts, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long URL that is examined with a tooltip.

References

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0139.html

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2100-1

http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2859

http://pidgin.im/pipermail/support/2013-March/012981.html

http://pidgin.im/pipermail/support/2013-March/012980.html

http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=72

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00005.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00039.html

http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/2bb66ef1475e

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2014-02-06

Updated: 2014-03-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.1

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

Severity: Critical