National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-4999
Original release date:10/29/2007
Last revised:11/15/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
libpurple in Pidgin 2.1.0 through 2.2.1, when using HTML logging, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL dereference and application crash) via a message that contains invalid HTML data, a different vector than CVE-2007-4996.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
- Official Statement from Red Hat (11/01/2007)
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Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of Pidgin or Gaim as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, or 5.
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=24
Type: Patch Information
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2007-3624
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 27372
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 38695
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2007-2714
External Source: XF
Name: pidgin-htmldata-dos(38132)
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-548-1
External Source: BID
Name: 26205
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20071112 FLEA-2007-0067-1 pidgin
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 27858
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 27495