pidgin: DoS when rendering long URLs
Published Feb 6, 2014
4.3
MEDIUMCVSS 2.0
EPSS 3.84%
Description
gtkimhtml.c in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not properly interact with underlying library support for wide Pango layouts, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long URL that is examined with a tooltip.
Affected products
No data.
- ≤ 2.10.7
- 2.0.0
- 2.0.1
- 2.0.2
- 2.1.0
- 2.1.1
- 2.2.0
- 2.2.1
- 2.2.2
- 2.3.0
- 2.3.1
- 2.4.0
- 2.4.1
- 2.4.2
- 2.4.3
- 2.5.0
- 2.5.1
- 2.5.2
- 2.5.3
- 2.5.4
- 2.5.5
- 2.5.6
- 2.5.7
- 2.5.8
- 2.5.9
- 2.6.0
- 2.6.1
- 2.6.2
- 2.6.3
- 2.6.4
- 2.6.5
- 2.6.6
- 2.7.0
- 2.7.1
- 2.7.2
- 2.7.3
- 2.7.4
- 2.7.5
- 2.7.6
- 2.7.7
- 2.7.8
- 2.7.9
- 2.7.10
- 2.7.11
- 2.8.0
- 2.9.0
- 2.10.0
- 2.10.1
- 2.10.2
- 2.10.3
- 2.10.4
- 2.10.5
- 2.10.6
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
pidgin-0:2.6.6-32.el5
Fixed · RHSA-2014:0139
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
pidgin-0:2.7.9-27.el6
Fixed · RHSA-2014:0139
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
pidgin
Not affected
| Product | Package | State | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | pidgin-0:2.6.6-32.el5 | Fixed | RHSA-2014:0139 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | pidgin-0:2.7.9-27.el6 | Fixed | RHSA-2014:0139 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | pidgin | Not affected | n/a |
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (12 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 3.84% (0.03845) | 89.80th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 3.84% (0.03845) | 88.73th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 30, 2025 | 3.82% (0.03817) | 87.04th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 29, 2025 | 8.28% (0.08277) | 86.82th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 3.82% (0.03817) | 87.34th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 3.99% (0.03994) | 92.39th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Sep 19, 2023 | 3.99% (0.03994) | 90.99th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Aug 3, 2023 | 4.50% (0.04498) | 91.36th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 4.47% (0.04470) | 91.14th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 1.97% (0.01974) | 78.97th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 1.97% (0.01974) | 77.12th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 1.97% (0.01974) | 56.20th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
References (13)
- http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/2bb66ef1475e x_refsource_CONFIRM
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00039.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00005.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
- http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=72 x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
- http://pidgin.im/pipermail/support/2013-March/012980.html mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- http://pidgin.im/pipermail/support/2013-March/012981.html mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2859 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2100-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-6478 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1056904 Issue Tracking
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-6478
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0139.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-6478
| Link | Providers | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/2bb66ef1475e | x_refsource_CONFIRM | |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00039.html | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE | |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00005.html | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE | |
| http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=72 | x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory | |
| http://pidgin.im/pipermail/support/2013-March/012980.html | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST | |
| http://pidgin.im/pipermail/support/2013-March/012981.html | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST | |
| http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2859 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN | |
| http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2100-1 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU | |
| https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-6478 | Vendor Advisory | |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1056904 | Issue Tracking | |
| https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-6478 | ||
| https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0139.html | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT | |
| https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-6478 |
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