Memory Allocation Vulnerability in libpurple in Pidgin

CVE-2013-6479 · MEDIUM Severity

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

util.c in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not properly allocate memory for HTTP responses that are inconsistent with the Content-Length header, which allows remote HTTP servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted response.

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