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.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050695.html ↗
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0788.html ↗
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2753 ↗
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/62708 ↗
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2754 ↗
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2010&m=slackware-security.462352 ↗
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050227.html ↗
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1024623 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44283 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42294 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42075 ↗
- http://www.osvdb.org/68773 ↗
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0890.html ↗
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1014-1 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/41893 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=641921 ↗
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2851 ↗
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2847 ↗
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/050133.html ↗
- http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/b01c6a1f7fe4d86b83f5f10917b3cb713989cfcc ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/41899 ↗
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18506 ↗
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2755 ↗
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2870 ↗
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:208 ↗
- http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=48 ↗