Security Advisory

CVE-2010-3711

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2010-10-27 22:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 03:18:52
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

libpurple in Pidgin before 2.7.4 does not properly validate the return value of the purple_base64_decode function, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted message, related to the plugins for MSN, MySpaceIM, XMPP, and Yahoo! and the NTLM authentication support.