CVE-2011-1091

CVE Details

Release Date:	2011-03-14
Impact:	Low	What is this?

Description

libymsg.c in the Yahoo! protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin 2.6.0 through 2.7.10 allows (1) remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a malformed YMSG notification packet, and allows (2) remote Yahoo! servers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a malformed YMSG SMS message.

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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-2011-1371	2011-10-14
Oracle Linux version 6 (pidgin)	ELSA-2011-0616	2011-05-28