PT-2007-6107 · Pidgin · Pidgin

Published 2007-10-29 · Updated 2018-10-15 · CVE-2007-4999

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Pidgin versions 2.1.0 through 2.2.1

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a NULL dereference and application crash, via a message containing invalid HTML data when HTML logging is used.

Recommendations For Pidgin versions 2.1.0 through 2.2.1, consider disabling HTML logging as a temporary workaround until a patch is available.

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2007-4999

Affected Products

Pidgin

References · 16

• http://secunia.com/advisories/27372 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-4999 · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00011.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-4999 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2007-4999 · Vendor Advisory
• http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=24 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2007-4999 · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-548-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://osvdb.org/38695 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/26205 · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3624 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38132 · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18357 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27495 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/483580/100/0/threaded · Note