Resource management error in Pidgin - CVE-2012-2214

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Resource management error in Pidgin - CVE-2012-2214

Published: July 3, 2012 / Updated: July 28, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU32792
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2012-2214
CWE-ID: CWE-399
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote #AU# to perform service disruption.

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.


Affected software

Pidgin
pidgin (Alpine package)

How to mitigate CVE-2012-2214

Install update from vendor's website.

Pidgin - update to 2.10.4
pidgin (Alpine package) - update to 2.10.4-r0

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