PT-2011-5006 · Pidgin+2 · Pidgin+2

Evgeny Boger · Published 2011-12-14 · Updated 2017-09-19 · CVE-2011-4601

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Pidgin versions prior to 2.10.1

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an application crash, by sending a crafted message. This can be achieved through a specially designed AIM or ICQ message associated with buddy-list addition. The problem stems from insufficient UTF-8 validation on message data in the oscar protocol plugin.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.10.1, update to version 2.10.1 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CESA-2011_1821

CVE-2011-4601

RHSA-2011:1820

RHSA-2011:1821

RHSA-2011_1820

RHSA-2011_1821

Affected Products

Centos

Pidgin

Red Hat

References · 30

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2011-4601 · Vendor Advisory
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2011-1821.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-4602 · Security Note
• https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/13195955 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2011-4601 · Vendor Advisory
• http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=57 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:183 · Vendor Advisory
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1821.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-4601 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-4601 · Vendor Advisory
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1820.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-4601 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/47234 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-4602 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-4601 · Note