CVE-2010-2528
The clientautoresp function in family_icbm.c in the oscar protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.7.2 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via an X-Status message that lacks the expected end tag for a (1) desc or (2) title element.
- EPSS
- 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 84% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-399
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- pidgin:pidgin
References
- http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/diff/fcb70f7c12120206d30ad33223ff85be7b226d1c/with/8e8ff246492e45af8f8d0808296d6f2906794dc0/libpurple/protocols/oscar/family_icbm.c
- http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/8e8ff246492e45af8f8d0808296d6f2906794dc0
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40699
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2010&m=slackware-security.462873
- http://www.osvdb.org/66506