PT-2011-5008 · Pidgin+1 · Pidgin+1

Published 2011-12-14 · Updated 2017-09-19 · CVE-2011-4603

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 concerns a problem with UTF-8 validation on message data in the SILC protocol plugin. This allows remote attackers to cause an application crash via a crafted message.

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

CVE-2011-4603

RHSA-2011:1820

RHSA-2011_1820

Affected Products

Pidgin

Red Hat

References · 16

• http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/diff/c7b95cc3be0590b52edc02d4750ae62844c1acb6/with/afb9ede3de989f217f03d5670cca00e628bd11f1/libpurple/protocols/silc/ops.c · Patch
• http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=59 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-4603 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-4603 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2011-4603 · Vendor Advisory
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1820.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/13195955 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2011-4603 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/47234 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/51074 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-4602 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-4601 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-4603 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011:1820 · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18303 · Note