National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-2214
Original release date:07/03/2012
Last revised:07/17/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
proxy.c in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.4 does not properly handle canceled SOCKS5 connection attempts, which allows user-assisted remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a sequence of XMPP file-transfer requests.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
6.8
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=62
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/5f9d676cefdb
Type: Patch Information
Technical Details
- Resource Management Errors (CWE-399)