CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2007-4996

Published: Oct 01, 2007 | Modified: Oct 15, 2018
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

libpurple in Pidgin before 2.2.1 does not properly handle MSN nudge messages from users who are not on the receivers buddy list, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a nudge message that triggers an access of an invalid memory location.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Pidgin Pidgin 2.2.0 (including) 2.2.0 (including)

References