CVEvulnerability
CVE-2007-4999
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2007-10-29
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
libpurple in Pidgin 2.1.0 through 2.2.1, when using HTML logging, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL dereference and application crash) via a message that contains invalid HTML data, a different vector than CVE-2007-4996.
Affected configurations
• pidgin pidgin 2.1.0
• pidgin pidgin 2.2.0
• pidgin pidgin 2.2.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://osvdb.org/38695 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27372 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27495 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27858 secunia.com
- http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=24 Patch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483580/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26205 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-548-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3624 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38132 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18357 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00011.html www.redhat.com
- http://osvdb.org/38695 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27372 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27495 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27858 secunia.com
- http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=24 Patch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483580/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26205 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-548-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3624 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38132 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18357 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00011.html www.redhat.com