Pidgin Security Advisory
Title | MSN direct connection denial of service |
Date | 2010-12-26 |
CVE Name | CVE-2010-4528 |
Discovered By | Stu Tomlinson |
Summary | Remotely-triggered denial of service in MSN |
Description | It was discovered that libpurple 2.7.6 through 2.7.8 did not properly handle "short" packets in MSN direct connection sessions, leading to a crash due to a NULL pointer dereference. Malicious clients or users can exploit this to cause a denial of service (crash). |
Fixed in Revision | 26fc2e71129a |
Fixed in Version | 2.7.9 |
Fix | Ignore short packets. |
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