Denial of Service Vulnerability in Pidgin MSN Protocol Plugin

CVE-2011-3184 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The msn_httpconn_parse_data function in httpconn.c in the MSN protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.0 does not properly handle HTTP 100 responses, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (incorrect memory access and application crash) via vectors involving a crafted server message.

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