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CVE-2014-0020

Date: February 6, 2014

The IRC protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not validate argument counts, which allows remote IRC servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted message.

Language: C

Severity Score

5.3

Related Resources (17)

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00005.html

Url: http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=85

Url: http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/a167504359e5

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2100-1

Url: http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/6b0e0566af20

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-0020

Url: http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/5845d9fa7084

Url: http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/7d0fb0c6d8d4

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00039.html

Url: http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/9f132a6855cd

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2014-0020

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2859

Url: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0139.html

Url: http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/4d9be297d399

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-0020

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-0020

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2014-0020

Severity Score

5.3

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Input Validation

CWE-20

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.3
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:	5.0
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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