CVE-2012-2214 Information

Description

proxy.c in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.4 does not properly handle canceled SOCKS5 connection attempts which allows user-assisted remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a sequence of XMPP file-transfer requests.

Reference

http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/5f9d676cefdb http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=62 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:082 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A17886