PT-2010-5020 · Pidgin+1 · Libpurple+2

Daniel Atallah · Published 2010-10-21 · Updated 2017-09-19 · CVE-2010-3711

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Pidgin versions prior to 2.7.4

Description The issue is related to the improper validation of the return value of the purple base64 decode function in libpurple, which can be exploited by remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service. This can result in a NULL pointer dereference and application crash via a crafted message. The problem is associated with plugins for MSN, MySpaceIM, XMPP, and Yahoo!, as well as the NTLM authentication support.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.7.4, update to version 2.7.4 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2010-3711

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10432-1

RHSA-2010:0788

RHSA-2010:0890

RHSA-2010_0788

RHSA-2010_0890

Affected Products

Pidgin

Red Hat

Libpurple

References · 36

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2010-3711 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-3711 · Security Note
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:208 · Vendor Advisory
• http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2010&m=slackware-security.462352 · Vendor Advisory
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2753 · Vendor Advisory
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0890.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2755 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050227.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1014-1 · Vendor Advisory
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• http://secunia.com/advisories/41899 · Vendor Advisory
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2010-0890.html · Vendor Advisory
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• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0788.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/050133.html · Vendor Advisory