Pidgin purple_base64_decode() Validation Flaw Lets Remote Users Deny Service
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1024623 |
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id/1024623
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CVE Reference:
CVE-2010-3711
(Links to External Site)
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Date: Oct 21 2010
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Impact:
Denial of service via network
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Fix Available: Yes Vendor Confirmed: Yes
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Version(s): prior to 2.7.4
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Description:
A vulnerability was reported in Pidgin. A remote user can cause denial of service conditions.
A remote user can send specially crafted data to trigger a flaw in the validation of return values from the purple_base64_decode() function and cause the target application to crash.
The Yahoo!, MSN, MySpaceIM, and XMPP protocol plugins and the NTLM authentication implementation are affected.
Daniel Atallah reported this vulnerability.
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Impact:
A remote user can cause the target application to crash.
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Solution:
The vendor has issued a fix (2.7.4).
The vendor's advisory is available at:
http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=48
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Vendor URL: pidgin.im/news/security/?id=48 (Links to External Site)
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Cause:
Input validation error
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Underlying OS:
Linux (Any), UNIX (Any), Windows (Any)
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Message History:
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Source Message Contents
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Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:05:42 +0000
Subject: Pidgin
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http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=48
purple_base64_decode() remote crashes
CVE-2010-3711
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