CVE-2010-2528

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2010-07-21
CWE:
CWE-476
Bugzilla:
617105: CVE-2010-2528 pidgin: ICQ X-Status denial of service (NULL deref)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2010-2528 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of pidgin as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, or 5.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 5
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 pidgin Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 pidgin Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 pidgin Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 pidgin Not affected

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