PT-2011-4194 · Pidgin · Pidgin

Jan Lieskovsky

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Publicado

2011-08-29

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Atualizado

2017-09-19

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CVE-2011-2943

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Média

VetorAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Pidgin versions 2.8.0 through 2.9.0
Description The issue arises from the irc msg who function in the IRC protocol plugin, which fails to properly validate characters in nicknames. This allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference and application crash, by using a crafted nickname in a WHO response.
Recommendations For versions 2.8.0 through 2.9.0, update to version 2.10.0 or later to resolve the issue.

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Identificadores relacionados

CVE-2011-2943

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