PT-2014-1299 · Pidgin+4 · Libpurple+5

Pawel Janic + 2 · Published 2014-01-30 · Updated 2014-04-09 · CVE-2013-6484

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 is related to the STUN protocol implementation in libpurple. It allows remote STUN servers to cause a denial of service by triggering a socket read error, leading to an out-of-bounds write operation and application crash. This can be exploited by a remote attacker to manipulate software sockets and cause a denial of service.

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 remote STUN servers to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2014-1462

BDU:2015-00084

CESA-2014_0139

CVE-2013-6484

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

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-6484 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-0020 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-6484 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2013-6484 · 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