PT-2014-3135 · Pidgin+4 · Pidgin+4

Published 2014-01-30 · Updated 2014-04-09 · CVE-2013-6478

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/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 arises from improper interaction with underlying library support for wide Pango layouts in gtkimhtml.c. This allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an application crash, by having a user examine a long URL with a tooltip.

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

Fix

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2014-1462

CESA-2014_0139

CVE-2013-6478

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 · 76

• http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=72 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-6478 · Security Note
• 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://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