CVE-2007-4996

Publication date

2007-10-01 20:00:00

Family

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."