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CVE-2010-0277

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-0277 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Pidgin (before 2.6.6) and Adium (1.3.8) due to memory corruption. A remote attacker can trigger this by sending a specially crafted MSNSLP INVITE request within an SLP message. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0 (medium severity), indicating it can be exploited over the network with low complexity and without authentication, leading to application crashes. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.3.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adium:adium:1.3.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 2.6.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pidgin:pidgin:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pidgin:pidgin:2.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pidgin:pidgin:2.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pidgin:pidgin:2.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.31%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
81.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0231 is in the 72nd percentile among its peer group of 23,690 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: pidgin-0:2.6.6-1.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: pidgin-0:2.6.6-1.el5
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2010-0277Moderate

pidgin MSN protocol plugin memory corruption

Dec 27, 2009

References

blogs.sun.com / security/entry/cve_2010_0277_malformed_msn
developer.pidgin.im / wiki/ChangeLog
events.ccc.de / congress/2009/Fahrplan/events/3596.en.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035332.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035347.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035409.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html
pidgin.im / news/security
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/38563
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/38640
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/38658
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/38712
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/38915
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/41868
Vendor Advisory
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18348
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9421
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2010-0115.html
mandriva.com / security/advisories
mandriva.com / security/advisories
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2010/01/07/2
securityfocus.com / bid/38294
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-902-1
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/0413
Vendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/1020
Vendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/2693
Vendor Advisory