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(libpurple): Multiple DoS (crash) flaws by processing of unsanitized Base64 decoder values

Published Oct 27, 2010

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.

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Remediation

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner redhat
Published Oct 27, 2010
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Oct 1, 2010
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date Oct 20, 2010