CVE-2010-4528

EPSS 2.5%

directconn.c in the MSN protocol plugin in libpurple 2.7.6 through 2.7.8 in Pidgin before 2.7.9 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a short p2pv2 packet in a DirectConnect (aka direct connection) session.

Affected products

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References

http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/diff/e76f4ad4ef2f10588195a0eedc7a08f82062f79c/with/aaa07bde3c51d3684391ae6ed86b6dbaeab5d031/libpurple/protocols/msn/directconn.c http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/aaa07bde3c51d3684391ae6ed86b6dbaeab5d031 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/052862.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/052905.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00003.html http://pidgin.im/pipermail/support/2010-December/009251.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=665421 http://secunia.com/advisories/42732 http://secunia.com/advisories/42824 http://secunia.com/advisories/42877 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18461 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:259