CVE-2010-4528
pidgin: no CVSS score yet. EPSS 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
directconn.c in the MSN protocol plugin in libpurple 2.7.6 through 2.7.8 in Pidgin before 2.7.9 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a short p2pv2 packet in a DirectConnect (aka direct connection) session.
- EPSS
- 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 85% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-20
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- pidgin:libpurple
- pidgin:pidgin
References
- http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/diff/e76f4ad4ef2f10588195a0eedc7a08f82062f79c/with/aaa07bde3c51d3684391ae6ed86b6dbaeab5d031/libpurple/protocols/msn/directconn.c
- http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/aaa07bde3c51d3684391ae6ed86b6dbaeab5d031
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/052862.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/052905.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00003.html