CVE-2011-1091

2011-03-1419:00:00

redhat

www.cve.org

AI Score

5.8

Confidence

Low

EPSS

0.016

Percentile

87.6%

JSON

libymsg.c in the Yahoo! protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin 2.6.0 through 2.7.10 allows (1) remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a malformed YMSG notification packet, and allows (2) remote Yahoo! servers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a malformed YMSG SMS message.

References

developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/diff/5cbe18129b6e7c660bc093f7e5e1414ceca17d04/with/a7c415abba1f5f01f79295337518837f73d99bb7/libpurple/protocols/yahoo/libymsg.c

developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/a7c415abba1f5f01f79295337518837f73d99bb7

lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055874.html

lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056309.html

secunia.com/advisories/43695

secunia.com/advisories/43721

secunia.com/advisories/46376

slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2011&m=slackware-security.466884

www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=51

www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0616.html

www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1371.html

www.securityfocus.com/bid/46837

www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0643