CVE-2013-0274 Information

Description

upnp.c in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.7 does not properly terminate long strings in UPnP responses which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by leveraging access to the local network.

Reference

http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/ad7e7fb98db3 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-03/msg00003.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-03/msg00006.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-03/msg00007.html http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=68 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1746-1 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A18221