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
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2007-4996
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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URL: http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=C...
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-10-01 18:35 UTC by Lubomir Kundrak
Modified: 2021-11-12 19:44 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-01-08 12:40:25 UTC
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Description Lubomir Kundrak 2007-10-01 18:35:42 UTC 
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 12:40:25 UTC 
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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