CVE-2010-4528 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the MSN protocol plugin of Pidgin's libpurple library (versions 2.7.6 through 2.7.8). An authenticated remote attacker can crash the application by sending a malformed (short) p2pv2 packet during a DirectConnect session, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. The CVSS score of 4.0 indicates a low severity, with an attack vector over the network, low attack complexity, requiring authentication, and resulting in partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2.7.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:pidgin:libpurple:2.7.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.7.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:pidgin:libpurple:2.7.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.7.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:pidgin:libpurple:2.7.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 2.7.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:pidgin:pidgin:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:pidgin:pidgin:2.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
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