CVE-2014-3696 Information

Description

nmevent.c in the Novell GroupWise protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.10 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted server message that triggers a large memory allocation.

Reference

http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/44fd89158777 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00023.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00037.html http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=88 http://secunia.com/advisories/60741 http://secunia.com/advisories/61968 http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3055 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2390-1 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1854