CVE-2010-3711

Pidgin vulnerability

CVSS

4.0

EPSS

3.3%

EPSS pct

87th

Exploited

No known

libpurple in Pidgin before 2.7.4 does not properly validate the return value of the purple_base64_decode function, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted message, related to the plugins for MSN, MySpaceIM, XMPP, and Yahoo! and the NTLM authentication support.

Affected vendor

Pidgin

Affected product

Pidgin

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation

Published

2010-10-28

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring single-factor authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.3% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 87% of all scored CVEs.

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