Out-of-bounds read in Pidgin - CVE-2013-6481
Published: February 6, 2014 / Updated: January 1, 2023
Vulnerability identifier: #VU42056
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-6481
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in libpurple/protocols/yahoo/libymsg.c in Pidgin before 2.10.8. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service (crash) via a Yahoo! P2P message with a crafted length field, which triggers a buffer over-read.
Affected software
Pidgin
Gentoo Linux
Slackware Linux
Gentoo Linux
Slackware Linux
How to mitigate CVE-2013-6481
Install update from vendor's website.
Pidgin - update to 2.10.8
External References
- http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/4d139ce8f7ec
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00039.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00005.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2859
- http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=74
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2100-1
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0139.html