CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-1624
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2010-05-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
The msn_emoticon_msg function in slp.c in the MSN protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.7.0 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a custom emoticon in a malformed SLP message.
Affected configurations
• pidgin pidgin (< 2.7.0)
• canonical ubuntu linux 8.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 9.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 10.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 10.10
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/diff/884d44222e8c81ecec51c25e07d005e002a5479b/with/894460d22c434e73d60b71ec031611988e687c8b/libpurple/protocols/msn/slp.c Broken Link
- http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/894460d22c434e73d60b71ec031611988e687c8b Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/39801 Not Applicable, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/41899 Not Applicable
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:097 Broken Link
- http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/index.php?id=46 Broken Link
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0788.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/40138 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1014-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1141 Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2755 Permissions Required
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=589973 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/58559 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18547 Third Party Advisory
- http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/diff/884d44222e8c81ecec51c25e07d005e002a5479b/with/894460d22c434e73d60b71ec031611988e687c8b/libpurple/protocols/msn/slp.c Broken Link
- http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/894460d22c434e73d60b71ec031611988e687c8b Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/39801 Not Applicable, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/41899 Not Applicable
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:097 Broken Link
- http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/index.php?id=46 Broken Link
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0788.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/40138 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1014-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1141 Permissions Required, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2755 Permissions Required
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=589973 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/58559 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18547 Third Party Advisory