National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-3085

Overview

The XMPP protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.6.2 does not properly handle an error IQ stanza during an attempted fetch of a custom smiley, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via XHTML-IM content with cid: images.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/index.php?id=37

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/index.php?id=37

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/fd5955618eddcd84d522b30ff11102f9601f38c8

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/fd5955618eddcd84d522b30ff11102f9601f38c8

External Source: BID

Name: 36277

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36277

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 36601

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/36601

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6434

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6434

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11223

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11223

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11223

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11223

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6434

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6434