CVE-2007-4996
Published Oct 1, 2007
Last updated 6 years ago
Overview
- Description
- libpurple in Pidgin before 2.2.1 does not properly handle MSN nudge messages from users who are not on the receiver's buddy list, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a nudge message that triggers an access of "an invalid memory location."
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
- NVD status
- Modified
Risk scores
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 4.3
- Impact score
- 2.9
- Exploitability score
- 8.6
- Vector string
- AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- NVD-CWE-Other
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Vendor comments
- Red HatNot vulnerable. These issues did not affect the versions of Pidgin or Gaim as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, or 5.
Configurations
[
{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:pidgin:pidgin:2.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "5D22A117-78BE-4BAC-8A2A-6C00C9E3A4C4"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]