Pidgin X-Status denial of service
| pidgin-xstatus-dos (60566) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
Pidgin is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL pointer dereference in the oscar protocol plugin when processing X-Status messages. By sending a specially-crafted X-Status message, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
*CVSS:
| Base Score: | 5 |
| Access Vector: | Network |
| Access Complexity: | Low |
| Authentication: | None |
| Confidentiality Impact: | None |
| Integrity Impact: | None |
| Availability Impact: | Partial |
| Temporal Score: | 3.7 |
| Exploitability: | Unproven |
| Remediation Level: | Official-Fix |
| Report Confidence: | Confirmed |
Consequences:
Denial of Service
Remedy:
Refer to Pidgin Security Advisory 2010-07-21 for patch, upgrade or suggested workaround information. See References.
References:
- Pidgin Security Advisory 2010-07-21: ICQ X-Status denial of service.
- Sun Security Blog: CVE-2010-2528 CVE-2010-1624 Denial of Service Vulnerabilities in Pidgin .
- BID-41881: Pidgin 'X-Status' Message Denial of Service Vulnerability
- CVE-2010-2528: The clientautoresp function in family_icbm.c in the oscar protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.7.2 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via an X-Status message that lacks the expected end tag for a (1) desc or (2) title element.
- MDVSA-2010:148: pidgin
- OSVDB ID: 66506: Pidgin libpurple X-Status Message NULL Dereference DoS
- SA40699: Pidgin X-Status Message Denial of Service Weakness
- SA42554: Oracle Solaris Pidgin Multiple Denial of Service Weaknesses
- VUPEN/ADV-2010-1887: Pidgin X-Status Message Processing Denial of Service Vulnerability
Platforms Affected:
- MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux 2008.0 X86_64
- MandrakeSoft Mandrake Linux 2008.0
- Mandriva Linux 2009.0
- Mandriva Linux 2009.0 X86_64
- Mandriva Linux 2010 X86_64
- Mandriva Linux 2010
- Pidgin Pidgin 2.6.5
- Pidgin Pidgin 2.6.6
- Pidgin Pidgin 2.7.0
- Pidgin Pidgin 2.7.1
- Sun Solaris 10
Reported:
Jul 21, 2010
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