Input validation error in Pidgin - CVE-2013-6487
Published: February 6, 2014 / Updated: August 10, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU42058
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-6487
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
Integer overflow in libpurple/protocols/gg/lib/http.c in the Gadu-Gadu (gg) parser in Pidgin before 2.10.8 allows remote attackers to have an unspecified impact via a large Content-Length value, which triggers a buffer overflow.
Affected software
Pidgin
Gentoo Linux
Slackware Linux
Gentoo Linux
Slackware Linux
How to mitigate CVE-2013-6487
Install update from vendor's website.
External References
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0074.html
- http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/ec15aa187aa0
- http://libgadu.net/releases/1.11.3.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128277.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00039.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00005.html
- http://vrt-blog.snort.org/2014/01/vrt-2013-1001-cve-2013-6487-buffer.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2852
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2859
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:039
- http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=82
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65188
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2100-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2101-1
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0139.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201508-02