CVEvulnerability

CVE-2010-3711

4.0 MEDIUM Published 2010-10-28 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2010-10-28
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

libpurple in Pidgin before 2.7.4 does not properly validate the return value of the purple_base64_decode function, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted message, related to the plugins for MSN, MySpaceIM, XMPP, and Yahoo! and the NTLM authentication support.

Affected configurations

• pidgin pidgin (<= 2.7.3) • pidgin pidgin 2.0.0 • pidgin pidgin 2.0.1 • pidgin pidgin 2.0.2 • pidgin pidgin 2.1.0 • pidgin pidgin 2.1.1 • pidgin pidgin 2.2.0 • pidgin pidgin 2.2.1 • pidgin pidgin 2.2.2 • pidgin pidgin 2.3.0 • pidgin pidgin 2.3.1 • pidgin pidgin 2.4.0 • pidgin pidgin 2.4.1 • pidgin pidgin 2.4.2 • pidgin pidgin 2.4.3 • pidgin pidgin 2.5.0 • pidgin pidgin 2.5.1 • pidgin pidgin 2.5.2 • pidgin pidgin 2.5.3 • pidgin pidgin 2.5.4 • pidgin pidgin 2.5.5 • pidgin pidgin 2.5.6 • pidgin pidgin 2.5.7 • pidgin pidgin 2.5.8 • pidgin pidgin 2.5.9 • pidgin pidgin 2.6.0 • pidgin pidgin 2.6.1 • pidgin pidgin 2.6.2 • pidgin pidgin 2.6.4 • pidgin pidgin 2.6.5 • pidgin pidgin 2.6.6 • pidgin pidgin 2.7.0 • pidgin pidgin 2.7.1 • pidgin pidgin 2.7.2

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References