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Secunia Advisory SA27010

Pidgin MSN "nudge" Denial of Service
Secunia Advisory SA27010
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Release Date 2007-10-01
   
Popularity 14,041 views
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Criticality level Not criticalNot critical
Impact DoS
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
Remediation status Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
Automated scanning Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
   
Software:
Pidgin 2.x

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2007-4996 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

A weakness has been reported in Pidgin, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The weakness is caused due to an error when processing MSN nudge messages from another user that is not on the buddy list. This can be exploited to cause libpurple to crash.


Solution
Update to version 2.2.1.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
The vendor credits Evan Schoenberg.

Original Advisory
http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=23

Deep Links
Links available in Customer Area


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