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.
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.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00005.html ↗
- http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/a167504359e5 ↗
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0139.html ↗
- http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/9f132a6855cd ↗
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2859 ↗
- http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=85 ↗
- http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/4d9be297d399 ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00039.html ↗
- http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/6b0e0566af20 ↗
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2100-1 ↗
- http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/7d0fb0c6d8d4 ↗
- http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/5845d9fa7084 ↗