CVE-2010-3711
N/A
Published: October 27, 2010 at 10:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:23 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorPidgin
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 3%
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
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
- http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/b01c6a1f7fe4d86b83f5f10917b3cb713989cfcc
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050227.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050695.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/050133.html
- http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=48
References (26)
x_refsource_CONFIRMPatch
Source: [email protected]
http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/b01c6a1f7fe4d86b83f5f10917b3cb713989cfccVendor Advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050227.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050695.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/050133.htmlx_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=48Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/41893Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/41899Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-20
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