CVE-2011-4602 Information

Description

The XMPP protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.1 does not properly handle missing fields in (1) voice-chat and (2) video-chat stanzas which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted message.

Reference

http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/fb216fc88b085afc06d9a15209519cde1f4df6c6 http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=58 http://secunia.com/advisories/47219 http://secunia.com/advisories/47234 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1820.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1821.html https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/13195955 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A18420