CVE-2010-0423 Information

Description

gtkimhtml.c in Pidgin before 2.6.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and application hang) by sending many smileys in a (1) IM or (2) chat.

Reference

http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035332.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035347.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035409.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=45 http://secunia.com/advisories/38563 http://secunia.com/advisories/38640 http://secunia.com/advisories/38658 http://secunia.com/advisories/38712 http://secunia.com/advisories/38915 http://secunia.com/advisories/39509 http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2038 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:041 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:085 http://www.osvdb.org/62440 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38294 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-902-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0413 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0914 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1020 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=565792 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/56394 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A17554 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9842 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0115.html