Vulnerability in Pidgin

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.

EPSS: 0.024 (82.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Pidgin — versions 2.5.1, 2.5.6, 2.4.3
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References