Denial of service vulnerability in proxy.c in libpurple in Pidgin| ID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:6275 | Date: (C)2012-07-03 (M)2021-12-02 |
| Class: VULNERABILITY | Family: windows |
The host is installed with Pidgin before 2.10.4 and is prone to denial of service vulnerability. A flaw is present in the application, which fails to properly handle canceled SOCKS5 connection attempts. Successful exploitation allows user-assisted remote authenticated users to cause application crash via a sequence of XMPP file-transfer requests.
| Platform: |
| Microsoft Windows 11 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2022 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2019 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2016 |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 |
| Microsoft Windows 7 |
| Microsoft Windows 8 |
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 |
| Microsoft Windows 10 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 |
| Microsoft Windows Vista |
| Microsoft Windows XP |
