CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-4996

4.3 MEDIUM Published 2007-10-01 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-10-01
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

libpurple in Pidgin before 2.2.1 does not properly handle MSN nudge messages from users who are not on the receiver's buddy list, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a nudge message that triggers an access of "an invalid memory location."

Affected configurations

• pidgin pidgin 2.2.0

References