Security Advisory

CVE-2007-4996

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2007-10-01 20:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 15:17:27
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

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."