CVE-2009-3615

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2009-10-10
Bugzilla:
529357: CVE-2009-3615 Pidgin: Invalid pointer dereference (crash) after receiving contacts from SIM IM client

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The OSCAR protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.6.3 and Adium before 1.3.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via crafted contact-list data for (1) ICQ and possibly (2) AIM, as demonstrated by the SIM IM client.

Find out more about CVE-2009-3615 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 4.3
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) (pidgin) RHSA-2009:1536 2009-10-29
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (pidgin) RHSA-2009:1536 2009-10-29
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (pidgin) RHSA-2009:1535 2009-10-29
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (pidgin) RHSA-2009:1536 2009-10-29

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