Security Advisory

CVE-2012-2214

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2012-07-03 19:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 19:26:09
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

proxy.c in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.4 does not properly handle canceled SOCKS5 connection attempts, which allows user-assisted remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a sequence of XMPP file-transfer requests.