CVE-2014-0020

Description

The IRC protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not validate argument counts, which allows remote IRC servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted message.

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/news/security/?id=85

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/a167504359e5

http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/9f132a6855cd

http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/7d0fb0c6d8d4

http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/6b0e0566af20

http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/5845d9fa7084

http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/4d9be297d399

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3