PublicDateAtUSN: 2010-10-27
Candidate: CVE-2010-3711
PublicDate: 2010-10-28 00:00:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-3711
 http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=48
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1014-1
Description:
 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.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
Bugs:
 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pidgin/+bug/666998
Priority: low
Discovered-by: Daniel Atallah
Assigned-to: mdeslaur
CVSS: 

Patches_pidgin:
 upstream: http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/b01c6a1f7fe4d86b83f5f10917b3cb713989cfcc
upstream_pidgin: released (2.7.4-2)
dapper_pidgin: DNE
hardy_pidgin: released (1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2.10)
karmic_pidgin: released (1:2.6.2-1ubuntu7.3)
lucid_pidgin: released (1:2.6.6-1ubuntu4.1)
maverick_pidgin: released (1:2.7.3-1ubuntu3.1)
devel_pidgin: not-affected (1:2.7.9-1ubuntu1)