CVE-2007-4999

published 2007-10-29

CVE-2007-4999: libpurple in Pidgin 2.1.0 through 2.2.1, when using HTML logging, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL dereference and application crash)…

Priority P4 11 medium 4.3 CVSS 2.0

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

libpurple in Pidgin 2.1.0 through 2.2.1, when using HTML logging, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL dereference and application crash) via a message that contains invalid HTML data, a different vector than CVE-2007-4996.

Affected

8 ranges

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