PT-2012-2007 · Pidgin · Pidgin

Published 2012-03-15 · Updated 2018-01-18 · CVE-2011-4939

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.4

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Pidgin versions prior to 2.10.2

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference and application crash. This occurs when a nickname is changed while in an XMPP chat room.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.10.2, update to version 2.10.2 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2011-4939

Affected Products

Pidgin

References · 10

• http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=60 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:029 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2011-4939 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-4939 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2011-4939 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-4939 · Security Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18406 · Note
• http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/diff/10ead4688e3af4132d454fa3bc241480500651c9/with/d1d77da56217f3a083e1d459bef054db9f1d5699/pidgin/gtkconv.c · Note
• http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/14392 · Note
• http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/d1d77da56217f3a083e1d459bef054db9f1d5699 · Note