CVE-2010-3711 Null dereference in n/a
Medium 4.0
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2010-3711 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2010-3711 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Pidgin Pidgin, published on 27 Oct 2010. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-3711 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: Pidgin Pidgin. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.
Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2010-3711/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2010-3711/index.md)
Remote authenticated users can crash Pidgin via crafted messages due to improper validation of base64 decoding return values.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2010-3711?
CVE-2010-3711 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Pidgin Pidgin, published on 27 Oct 2010. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
libpurple in Pidgin before 2.7.4 does not properly validate the return value of the purple_base64_decode function, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted message, related to the plugins for MSN, MySpaceIM, XMPP, and Yahoo! and the NTLM authentication support.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-3711?
It affects 1 product.
Linux distribution packages (33)
finch Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client | All versions | 0:2.6.6-6.el6_0 |
finch-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client | All versions | 0:2.6.6-6.el6_0 |
libpurple Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client | All versions | 0:2.6.6-6.el6_0 |
libpurple-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client | All versions | 0:2.6.6-6.el6_0 |
libpurple-perl Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client | All versions | 0:2.6.6-6.el6_0 |
libpurple-tcl Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client | All versions | 0:2.6.6-6.el6_0 |
pidgin Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client | All versions | 0:2.6.6-6.el6_0 |
pidgin-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client | All versions | 0:2.6.6-6.el6_0 |
pidgin-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client | All versions | 0:2.6.6-6.el6_0 |
pidgin-docs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client | All versions | 0:2.6.6-6.el6_0 |
pidgin-perl Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client | All versions | 0:2.6.6-6.el6_0 |
finch Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server | All versions | 0:2.6.6-6.el6_0 |
finch-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server | All versions | 0:2.6.6-6.el6_0 |
libpurple Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server | All versions | 0:2.6.6-6.el6_0 |
libpurple-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server | All versions | 0:2.6.6-6.el6_0 |
libpurple-perl Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server | All versions | 0:2.6.6-6.el6_0 |
libpurple-tcl Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server | All versions | 0:2.6.6-6.el6_0 |
pidgin Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server | All versions | 0:2.6.6-6.el6_0 |
pidgin-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server | All versions | 0:2.6.6-6.el6_0 |
pidgin-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server | All versions | 0:2.6.6-6.el6_0 |
pidgin-docs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server | All versions | 0:2.6.6-6.el6_0 |
pidgin-perl Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server | All versions | 0:2.6.6-6.el6_0 |
finch Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation | All versions | 0:2.6.6-6.el6_0 |
finch-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation | All versions | 0:2.6.6-6.el6_0 |
libpurple Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation | All versions | 0:2.6.6-6.el6_0 |
libpurple-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation | All versions | 0:2.6.6-6.el6_0 |
libpurple-perl Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation | All versions | 0:2.6.6-6.el6_0 |
libpurple-tcl Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation | All versions | 0:2.6.6-6.el6_0 |
pidgin Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation | All versions | 0:2.6.6-6.el6_0 |
pidgin-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation | All versions | 0:2.6.6-6.el6_0 |
pidgin-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation | All versions | 0:2.6.6-6.el6_0 |
pidgin-docs Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation | All versions | 0:2.6.6-6.el6_0 |
pidgin-perl Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation | All versions | 0:2.6.6-6.el6_0 |
Products include Pidgin Pidgin.
How do I fix CVE-2010-3711?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Is CVE-2010-3711 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-3711 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Pidgin Pidgin
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2010-3711, GHSA-hc55-4m8w-x8c2, RHSA-2010:0890.