PT-2014-1298 · Pidgin+4 · Libpurple+5

Jacob Appelbaum · Published 2014-01-30 · Updated 2014-04-09 · CVE-2013-6479

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 concerns a problem in the libpurple component of Pidgin, where an inconsistency in HTTP response headers can be exploited by a remote attacker to cause a denial of service, leading to an application crash. This is achieved by manipulating the HTTP headers, specifically the Content-Length header, allowing remote HTTP servers to craft a response that causes the application to fail.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.10.8, update to version 2.10.8 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2014-1462

BDU:2015-00083

CESA-2014_0139

CVE-2013-6479

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

Libpurple

References · 74

• http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=73 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-0020 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2013-6479 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6481 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6484 · Security Note
• 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://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-00081 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-00077 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-00085 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6489 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2014-0034 · Vendor Advisory