CVE-2010-2528 Null dereference in n/a

What is CVE-2010-2528?

CVE-2010-2528 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Pidgin Pidgin, published on 29 Jul 2010. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The clientautoresp function in family_icbm.c in the oscar protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.7.2 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via an X-Status message that lacks the expected end tag for a (1) desc or (2) title element.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-2528?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Pidgin Pidgin.

How do I fix CVE-2010-2528?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2010-2528 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-2528 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Pidgin Pidgin

• CVE-2013-6490 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2016-1000030 Code injection in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2013-6486 Command injection in n/a Critical 9.3
• CVE-2011-3185 Command injection in n/a Critical 9.3
• CVE-2009-1376 Integer overflow in n/a Critical 9.3

All Pidgin Pidgin vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2010-2528, GHSA-6326-h87r-x9gf.