CVE-2010-3711 — Improper Input Validation in Pidgin

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation9 documents8 sources
Severity
4.0MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
1.4%
top 19.64%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
PidginDebian Pidgin
Timeline
PublishedOct 28
Latest updateMay 17

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.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/C:N/I:N/A:PExploitability: 8.0 | Impact: 2.9

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/pidgin< pidgin 2.7.4-1 (bookworm)
▶Debianpidgin/pidgin< 2.7.4-1+3
▶NVDpidgin/pidgin2.7.3+33

Patches

Patch: developer.pidgin.im ↗Patch: pidgin.im ↗Patch: www.vupen.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-hc55-4m8w-x8c2: libpurple in Pidgin before 2↗2022-05-17
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OSV
CVE-2010-3711: libpurple in Pidgin before 2↗2010-10-28
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💥Exploits & PoCs

1
Exploit-DB
httpdx - 'h_handlepeer()' Remote Buffer Overflow (Metasploit)↗2010-07-26
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
Pidgin vulnerabilities↗2010-11-04
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Red Hat
(libpurple): Multiple DoS (crash) flaws by processing of unsanitized Base64 decoder values↗2010-10-20
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Debian
CVE-2010-3711: pidgin - libpurple in Pidgin before 2.7.4 does not properly validate the return value of ...↗2010
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2010-3711 Pidgin (libpurple): Multiple DoS (crash) flaws by processing of unsanitized Base64 decoder values [fedora-all]↗2010-10-21
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Bugzilla
CVE-2010-3711 Pidgin (libpurple): Multiple DoS (crash) flaws by processing of unsanitized Base64 decoder values↗2010-10-11
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