CVE-2010-3711 Information

Description

libpurple in Pidgin before 2.7.4 does not properly validate the return value of the purple_base64_decode function which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted message related to the plugins for MSN MySpaceIM XMPP and Yahoo! and the NTLM authentication support.

Reference

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