Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in Pidgin's SIMPLE Protocol Implementation

Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in Pidgin's SIMPLE Protocol Implementation

CVE-2013-6490 · HIGH Severity

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

The SIMPLE protocol functionality in Pidgin before 2.10.8 allows remote attackers to have an unspecified impact via a negative Content-Length header, which triggers a buffer overflow.

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