PT-2014-5457 · Pidgin+5 · Libpurple+6

Published 2014-10-22 · Updated 2018-01-05 · CVE-2014-3696

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 2.10.10

Description The issue allows remote servers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an application crash, by sending a crafted server message that triggers a large memory allocation. This occurs due to a problem in the nmevent.c file within the Novell GroupWise protocol plugin in libpurple.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.10.10, update to version 2.10.10 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2014-2302

CESA-2017_1854

CVE-2014-3696

DSA-3055-1

MGASA-2014-0425

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10432-1

RHSA-2017:1854

RHSA-2017_1854

USN-2390-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Pidgin

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

Libpurple

References · 46

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3697 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-3696 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-3696 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3696 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2014-0425 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-3696 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-3696 · Security Note
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1854 · Vendor Advisory
• http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/44fd89158777 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3696 · Vendor Advisory
• http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=88 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-3696 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00023.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3055 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-2390-1 · Vendor Advisory