Denial of Service Vulnerability in Pidgin XMPP Protocol Plugin

CVE-2011-4602 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The XMPP protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.1 does not properly handle missing fields in (1) voice-chat and (2) video-chat stanzas, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted message.

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