Denial of Service Vulnerability in Pidgin's IRC Protocol Plugin

CVE-2014-0020 · MEDIUM Severity

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The IRC protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not validate argument counts, which allows remote IRC servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted message.

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