CVE-2014-3696 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2014-3696?

CVE-2014-3696 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Pidgin Pidgin, published on 29 Oct 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

nmevent.c in the Novell GroupWise protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.10 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted server message that triggers a large memory allocation.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-3696?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Pidgin Pidgin.

How do I fix CVE-2014-3696?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2014-3696 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-3696 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-2014-3696, GHSA-96p5-rvrv-9x22, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3696.