PT-2012-3949 · Pidgin+3 · Libpurple+4

Published 2012-07-03 · Updated 2017-12-29 · CVE-2012-2318

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 2.10.4

Description The issue is related to the MSN protocol plugin in libpurple, where crafted characters in a text/plain message can cause a denial of service, resulting in an application crash.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.10.4, update to version 2.10.4 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CESA-2012_1102

CVE-2012-2318

RHSA-2012:1102

RHSA-2012_1102

Affected Products

Centos

Pidgin

Red Hat

Suse

Libpurple

References · 28

• 🔥 http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/4d6bcb4f4ea4 · Exploit
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-04505 · Security Note
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:082 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-04506 · Security Note
• https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15136503 · Vendor Advisory
• http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=63 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-2318 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2318 · Security Note
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1102.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-2318 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-2318 · Vendor Advisory
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2012-1102.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-3374 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-2318 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-1178 · Security Note