CVE-2010-0423

Public PoC / Exploit (1)

Links to public security research (Exploit-DB, Nuclei, Trickest, GitHub) for defensive use only.

Description

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.

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-399

Affected Products (29)

pidgin · pidginvulnerable

References (20)

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=45

PatchVendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/38563

Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/38640

Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/38658

Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/38712

Vendor 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/2010/0413

PatchVendor Advisory

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