PublicDateAtUSN: 2014-02-05
Candidate: CVE-2013-6490
PublicDate: 2014-02-06 17:00:00 UTC
References: 
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6490
 http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=84
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2100-1
Description:
 The SIMPLE protocol functionality in Pidgin before 2.10.8 allows remote
 attackers to have an unspecified impact via a negative Content-Length
 header, which triggers a buffer overflow.
Ubuntu-Description: 
Notes: 
Bugs: 
Priority: medium
Discovered-by: Yves Younan
Assigned-to: mdeslaur
CVSS: 

Patches_pidgin:
 upstream: http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/6bd2dd10e5da
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)