CVE-2013-6489 Information

Description

Integer signedness error in the MXit functionality in Pidgin before 2.10.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a crafted emoticon value which triggers an integer overflow and a buffer overflow.

Reference

http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/4c897372b5a4 http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2859 http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=83 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65192 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2100-1 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0139.html