National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-2528

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/index.php?id=47

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/index.php?id=47

External Source: XF

Name: pidgin-xstatus-dos(60566)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/60566

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2010-2221

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2221

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2010-1887

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1887

External Source: BID

Name: 41881

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41881

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 66506

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/66506

External Source: SLACKWARE

Name: SSA:2010-240-05

Hyperlink:http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2010&m=slackware-security.462873

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 40699

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/40699

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/8e8ff246492e45af8f8d0808296d6f2906794dc0

Hyperlink:http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/8e8ff246492e45af8f8d0808296d6f2906794dc0

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/diff/fcb70f7c12120206d30ad33223ff85be7b226d1c/with/8e8ff246492e45af8f8d0808296d6f2906794dc0/libpurple/protocols/oscar/family_icbm.c

Hyperlink:http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/diff/fcb70f7c12120206d30ad33223ff85be7b226d1c/with/8e8ff246492e45af8f8d0808296d6f2906794dc0/libpurple/protocols/oscar/family_icbm.c