Bug 314451 – CVE-2007-4996 MSN nudges sent from unknown buddies can cause libpurple to crash

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Bug 314451 - (CVE-2007-4996) CVE-2007-4996 MSN nudges sent from unknown buddies can cause libpurple to crash

Summary:	CVE-2007-4996 MSN nudges sent from unknown buddies can cause libpurple to crash

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2007-4996

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	low Severity low
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Assigned To:	Red Hat Product Security
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URL:	http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=C...
Whiteboard:	source=upstream,reported=20070928,pub...
Keywords:	Security

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Reported:	2007-10-01 14:35 EDT by Lubomir Kundrak
Modified:	2008-01-08 07:40 EST (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2008-01-08 07:40:25 EST
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Description Lubomir Kundrak 2007-10-01 14:35:42 EDT

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2007-4996 to the following vulnerability:

A remote MSN user that is not on the buddy list can cause a denial of service (crash) by sending a nudge message. The protocol plugin attempts to look up the buddy's information and accesses an invalid memory location if the user is not on the buddy list.

References:

http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=23

Comment 3 Tomas Hoger 2008-01-08 07:40:25 EST

These issues did not affect the versions of Pidgin or Gaim as shipped with Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, or 5.

Fedora pidgin packages were updated to fixed upstream version.

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