PublicDateAtUSN: 2014-02-05
Candidate: CVE-2013-6489
PublicDate: 2014-02-06 17:00:00 UTC
References: 
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6489
 http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=83
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2100-1
Description:
 Integer signedness error in the MXit functionality in Pidgin before 2.10.8
 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault)
 via a crafted emoticon value, which triggers an integer overflow and a
 buffer overflow.
Ubuntu-Description: 
Notes: 
Bugs: 
Priority: medium
Discovered-by: Yves Younan and Pawel Janic
Assigned-to: mdeslaur
CVSS: 

Patches_pidgin:
 upstream: http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/4c897372b5a4
upstream_pidgin: released (2.10.8)
lucid_pidgin: ignored (reached end-of-life)
precise_pidgin: released (1:2.10.3-0ubuntu1.4)
quantal_pidgin: released (1:2.10.6-0ubuntu2.3)
saucy_pidgin: released (1:2.10.7-0ubuntu4.1.13.10.1)
devel_pidgin: released (1:2.10.9-0ubuntu1)