CVE-2007-4996

published 2007-10-01

CVE-2007-4996: libpurple in Pidgin before 2.2.1 does not properly handle MSN nudge messages from users who are not on the receiver's buddy list, which allows remote attackers…

Priority P4 15 medium 4.3 CVSS 2.0

AV N AC M Au N C N I N A P

libpurple in Pidgin before 2.2.1 does not properly handle MSN nudge messages from users who are not on the receiver's buddy list, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a nudge message that triggers an access of "an invalid memory location."

Affected

13 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	pidgin	< pidgin 2.2.1-1 (bookworm)	pidgin 2.2.1-1 (bookworm)
debian	pidgin	< pidgin 2.2.2-1 (bookworm)	pidgin 2.2.2-1 (bookworm)
pidgin	pidgin	—	—
pidgin	pidgin	—	—
pidgin	pidgin	—	—
pidgin	pidgin	>= 0 < 2.2.1-1	2.2.1-1
pidgin	pidgin	>= 0 < 2.2.2-1	2.2.2-1
pidgin	pidgin	>= 0 < 2.2.1-1	2.2.1-1
pidgin	pidgin	>= 0 < 2.2.2-1	2.2.2-1
pidgin	pidgin	>= 0 < 2.2.1-1	2.2.1-1
pidgin	pidgin	>= 0 < 2.2.2-1	2.2.2-1
pidgin	pidgin	>= 0 < 2.2.1-1	2.2.1-1
pidgin	pidgin	>= 0 < 2.2.2-1	2.2.2-1

CVSS provenance

nvd v2.0 4.3 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

osv 4.3 MEDIUM

vendor_debian 4.3 MEDIUM

vendor_redhat 4.3 MEDIUM

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