CVE-2010-1624 Information

Description

The msn_emoticon_msg function in slp.c in the MSN protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.7.0 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a custom emoticon in a malformed SLP message.

Reference

http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/diff/884d44222e8c81ecec51c25e07d005e002a5479b/with/894460d22c434e73d60b71ec031611988e687c8b/libpurple/protocols/msn/slp.c http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/894460d22c434e73d60b71ec031611988e687c8b http://secunia.com/advisories/39801 http://secunia.com/advisories/41899 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:097 http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/index.php?id=46 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0788.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/40138 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1014-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1141 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2755 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=589973 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/58559 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A18547