CVE-2012-2214

Severity

35%

Complexity

68%

Confidentiality

48%

proxy.c in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.4 does not properly handle canceled SOCKS5 connection attempts, which allows user-assisted remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a sequence of XMPP file-transfer requests.

proxy.c in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.4 does not properly handle canceled SOCKS5 connection attempts, which allows user-assisted remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a sequence of XMPP file-transfer requests.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 3.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 12 years ago

2012-07-03 19:55:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-12-29 02:29:00

Affected Software

Pidgin 2.0.0

2.0.0

Pidgin 2.0.1

2.0.1

Pidgin 2.0.2

2.0.2

Pidgin 2.1.0

2.1.0

Pidgin 2.1.1

2.1.1

Pidgin 2.2.0

2.2.0

Pidgin 2.2.1

2.2.1

Pidgin 2.2.2

2.2.2

Pidgin 2.3.0

2.3.0

Pidgin 2.3.1

2.3.1

Pidgin 2.4.0

2.4.0

Pidgin 2.4.1

2.4.1

Pidgin 2.4.2

2.4.2

Pidgin 2.4.3

2.4.3

Pidgin 2.5.0

2.5.0

Pidgin 2.5.1

2.5.1

Pidgin 2.5.2

2.5.2

Pidgin 2.5.3

2.5.3

Pidgin 2.5.4

2.5.4

Pidgin 2.5.5

2.5.5

Pidgin 2.5.6

2.5.6

Pidgin 2.5.6

2.5.7

Pidgin 2.5.8

2.5.8

Pidgin 2.5.9

2.5.9

Pidgin 2.6.0

2.6.0

Pidgin 2.6.1

2.6.1

Pidgin 2.6.2

2.6.2

Pidgin 2.6.4

2.6.4

Pidgin 2.6.5

2.6.5

Pidgin 2.6.6

2.6.6

Pidgin 2.7.0

2.7.0

Pidgin 2.7.1

2.7.1

Pidgin 2.7.2

2.7.2

Pidgin 2.7.3

2.7.3

Pidgin 2.7.4

2.7.4

Pidgin 2.7.5

2.7.5

Pidgin 2.7.6

2.7.6

Pidgin 2.7.7

2.7.7

Pidgin 2.7.8

2.7.8

Pidgin 2.7.9

2.7.9

Pidgin 2.7.10

2.7.10

Pidgin 2.7.11

2.7.11

Pidgin 2.8.0

2.8.0

Pidgin 2.9.0

2.9.0

Pidgin 2.10.0

2.10.0

Pidgin 2.10.1

2.10.1

Pidgin 2.10.2

2.10.2

Pidgin

References

http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/5f9d676cefdb

Patch

http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=62

Patch, Vendor Advisory

MDVSA-2012:082

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17886

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