Buffer overflow in Pidgin - CVE-2013-6485

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Buffer overflow in Pidgin - CVE-2013-6485

Published: February 6, 2014 / Updated: August 10, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU42069
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-2013-6485
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.

Buffer overflow in util.c in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 allows remote HTTP servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via an invalid chunk-size field in chunked transfer-coding data.


Affected software

Pidgin
Gentoo Linux
Ubuntu
Slackware Linux
libpurple0 (Ubuntu package)
pidgin (Ubuntu package)

How to mitigate CVE-2013-6485

Install update from vendor's website.

libpurple0 (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 1:2.10.3-0ubuntu1.4, 1:2.10.6-0ubuntu2.3, 1:2.10.7-0ubuntu4.1.13.10.1
pidgin (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 1:2.10.3-0ubuntu1.4, 1:2.10.6-0ubuntu2.3, 1:2.10.7-0ubuntu4.1.13.10.1

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