CVE-2012-2214 — Pidgin vulnerability

CWE-3998 documents7 sources
Severity
3.5LOWNVD
EPSS
0.5%
top 32.23%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
PidginDebian Pidgin
Timeline
PublishedJul 3
Latest updateMay 14

Description

proxy.c in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.4 does not properly handle canceled SOCKS5 connection attempts, which allows user-assisted remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a sequence of XMPP file-transfer requests.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/C:N/I:N/A:PExploitability: 6.8 | Impact: 2.9

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/pidgin< pidgin 2.10.4-1 (bookworm)
▶Debianpidgin/pidgin< 2.10.4-1+3
▶NVDpidgin/pidgin2.10.3+47

Patches

Patch: hg.pidgin.im ↗Patch: pidgin.im ↗Patch: hg.pidgin.im ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-8xpc-q358-5r82: proxy↗2022-05-14
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OSV
CVE-2012-2214: proxy↗2012-07-03
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
Pidgin vulnerabilities↗2012-07-09
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Red Hat
pidgin: Invalid memory dereference in the XMPP protocol plug-in by processing serie of specially-crafted file transfer requests↗2012-05-06
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Debian
CVE-2012-2214: pidgin - proxy.c in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.4 does not properly handle canceled S...↗2012
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2012-2214 pidgin: Invalid memory dereference in the XMPP protocol plug-in by processing serie of specially-crafted file transfer requests↗2012-05-07
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Bugzilla
CVE-2012-2214 CVE-2012-2318 pidgin various flaws [fedora-all]↗2012-05-07
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