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Improper Input Validation

CVE-2011-4602

Medium
5/10

Summary

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.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL

CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation

The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published