PT-2013-2205 · Pidgin+3 · Libpurple+4

Published 2013-02-16 · Updated 2017-09-19 · CVE-2013-0272

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Pidgin versions prior to 2.10.7

Description The issue is related to a buffer overflow in the http.c file within the MXit protocol plugin in libpurple. This allows remote servers to execute arbitrary code via a long HTTP header.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.10.7, update to version 2.10.7 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CESA-2013_0646

CVE-2013-0272

OPENSUSE-SU-2013_0405-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2013_0407-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2013_0511-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10432-1

RHSA-2013:0646

RHSA-2013_0646

Affected Products

Centos

Pidgin

Red Hat

Suse

Libpurple

References · 34

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-0274 · Security Note
• http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=66 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-0272 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-03/msg00003.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-03/msg00006.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-03/msg00007.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-0273 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2013-0272 · Vendor Advisory
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2013-0646.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2013-0272 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-0272 · Security Note
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1746-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-0272 · Security Note
• http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0273.html · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17474 · Note