PT-2013-2206 · Pidgin+3 · Libpurple+4

Published 2013-02-16 · Updated 2017-09-19 · CVE-2013-0273

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 2.10.7

Description The issue is related to the Sametime protocol plugin in libpurple, where the sametime.c file does not properly terminate long user IDs. This allows remote servers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an application crash, via a crafted packet.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.10.7, update to version 2.10.7 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the Sametime protocol plugin until the update is applied.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CESA-2013_0646

CVE-2013-0273

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 · 33

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-0274 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-0273 · Security Note
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-03/msg00003.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2013-0273 · Vendor Advisory
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2013-0646.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-0273 · Security Note
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1746-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-0272 · Security Note
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-03/msg00006.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-0273 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-03/msg00007.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=67 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2013-0273 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.novell.com/804742 · Note
• http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0273.html · Note