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CVE-2010-0423

gtkimhtml.c in Pidgin before 2.6.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and application

gtkimhtml.c in Pidgin before 2.6.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and application hang) by sending many smileys in a (1) IM or (2) chat.

MEDIUM · CVSS 5 EPSS 0.08804

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Affected Products & Versions

2

pidgin<= 2.6.5

pidginall versions

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MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · secalert@redhat.com

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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.

v2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Published to NVD24 Feb 2010 · 06:30 PM

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Vendor Advisories

3

suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:10432-1
usnUSN-902-1
rhsaRHSA-2010:0115Low

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References & Sources

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Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.

http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035332.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035347.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035409.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html

http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=45PatchVendor Advisory

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http://secunia.com/advisories/38563Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/38640Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/38658Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/38712Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/38915

http://secunia.com/advisories/39509

http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2038

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:041

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:085

http://www.osvdb.org/62440

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38294

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-902-1

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0413PatchVendor Advisory

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0914

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1020

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=565792

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/56394

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17554

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9842

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0115.html

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