CVE-2010-3711

CVE Details

Release Date:	2010-10-28
Impact:	Moderate	What is this?

Description

libpurple in Pidgin before 2.7.4 does not properly validate the return value of the purple_base64_decode function, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted message, related to the plugins for MSN, MySpaceIM, XMPP, and Yahoo! and the NTLM authentication support.

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

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	4.0
Vector String:	AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	Single
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None
Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (pidgin)	ELSA-2010-0788	2010-10-21
Oracle Linux version 6 (pidgin)	ELSA-2010-0890	2011-02-10