PT-2011-1591 · Pidgin · Pidgin

Stu Tomlinson · Published 2011-01-07 · Updated 2017-09-19 · CVE-2010-4528

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 2.7.6 through 2.7.8

Description The issue allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference and application crash. This occurs via a short p2pv2 packet in a DirectConnect session.

Recommendations For versions 2.7.6 through 2.7.8, update to version 2.7.9 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2010-4528

Affected Products

Pidgin

References · 23

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-4528 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2010-4528 · Vendor Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/27/1 · Patch
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42732 · Vendor Advisory
• http://pidgin.im/pipermail/support/2010-December/009251.html · Patch
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00003.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:259 · Vendor Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/31/5 · Patch
• http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/aaa07bde3c51d3684391ae6ed86b6dbaeab5d031 · Patch
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/052862.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42824 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-4528 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/052905.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0028 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2010-4528 · Vendor Advisory