CVE-2007-4999 Information

Description

libpurple in Pidgin 2.1.0 through 2.2.1 when using HTML logging allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL dereference and application crash) via a message that contains invalid HTML data a different vector than CVE-2007-4996.

Reference

http://osvdb.org/38695 http://secunia.com/advisories/27372 http://secunia.com/advisories/27495 http://secunia.com/advisories/27858 http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=24 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483580/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26205 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-548-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3624 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38132 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A18357 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00011.html