CVE-2013-6479

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

util.c in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not properly allocate memory for HTTP responses that are inconsistent with the Content-Length header, which allows remote HTTP servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted response.

util.c in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not properly allocate memory for HTTP responses that are inconsistent with the Content-Length header, which allows remote HTTP servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted response.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 11 years ago

2014-02-06 16:10:00

Last updated 10 years ago

2014-03-16 04:42:00

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 2.6.3

2.6.3

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 2.10.3

2.10.3

Pidgin 2.10.4

2.10.4

Pidgin 2.10.5

2.10.5

Pidgin 2.10.6

2.10.6

Pidgin

References

http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/cd529e1158d3

openSUSE-SU-2014:0239

openSUSE-SU-2014:0326

http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=73

Vendor Advisory

DSA-2859

USN-2100-1

RHSA-2014:0139

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