CVE-2010-3711

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050695.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0788.html
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2753
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/62708
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2754
• http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2010&m=slackware-security.462352
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050227.html
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1024623
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44283
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42294
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42075
• http://www.osvdb.org/68773
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0890.html
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1014-1
• http://secunia.com/advisories/41893
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=641921
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2851
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2847
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-October/050133.html
• http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/b01c6a1f7fe4d86b83f5f10917b3cb713989cfcc
• http://secunia.com/advisories/41899
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18506
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2755
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2870
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:208
• http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=48

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