PT-2014-1296 · Pidgin+4 · Pidgin+4

Christian Wressnegger + 1 · Published 2014-01-30 · Updated 2014-04-09 · CVE-2013-6482

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 a remote attacker to cause a denial of service by manipulating OIM XML headers or via crafted SOAP responses, OIM XML responses, or Content-Length headers, leading to a NULL pointer dereference and crash.

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 restricting access to MSN protocol functionality until the update is applied.

Fix

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2014-1462

BDU:2015-00081

CESA-2014_0139

CVE-2013-6482

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 · 73

• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-6482 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-0020 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6481 · Security Note
• http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=76 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6484 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2013-6482 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2859 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00039.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2014-1462 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6487 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-00080 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-6482 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-00081 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-00077 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2013-6482 · Vendor Advisory