PT-2014-1295 · Pidgin+4 · Pidgin+4

Published 2014-01-30 · Updated 2014-04-09 · CVE-2013-6481

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 2.10.8

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a Yahoo! P2P message with a crafted length field, which triggers a buffer over-read. This is due to a vulnerability in the Pidgin software, specifically in the subcomponent responsible for working with the Yahoo! protocol.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.10.8, update to version 2.10.8 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider disabling the Yahoo! protocol functionality until a patch is available. Restrict access to P2P messages to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2014-1462

BDU:2015-00080

CESA-2014_0139

CVE-2013-6481

DSA-2859-1

MGASA-2014-0034

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10432-1

RHSA-2014:0139

RHSA-2014_0139

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Pidgin

Red Hat

Suse

References · 74

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• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6484 · Security Note
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