CVE-2007-4996

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2007-09-27
Bugzilla:
314451: CVE-2007-4996 MSN nudges sent from unknown buddies can cause libpurple to crash

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

libpurple in Pidgin before 2.2.1 does not properly handle MSN nudge messages from users who are not on the receiver's buddy list, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a nudge message that triggers an access of "an invalid memory location."

Find out more about CVE-2007-4996 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not vulnerable. These issues did not affect the versions of Pidgin or Gaim as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, or 5.

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