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CVE-2010-1624

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-1624 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Pidgin versions prior to 2.7.0, specifically within its MSN protocol plugin, affecting Canonical Pidgin and Ubuntu Linux distributions. An authenticated remote attacker could trigger a NULL pointer dereference and application crash by sending a malformed SLP message containing a custom emoticon. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with low attack complexity and no confidentiality or integrity impact, only availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 2.7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pidgin:pidgin:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:*:*:*:-:*:*:*
9.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:*:*:*:-:*:*:*
10.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
5.59%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
92.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0559 is in the 89th percentile among its peer group of 23,725 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 (4)

redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: pidgin-0:2.6.6-5.el4_8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: pidgin-0:2.6.6-5.el5_5
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: pidgin

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2010-1624Low

Pidgin: MSN SLP emoticon DoS (NULL pointer dereference)

May 12, 2010

References

developer.pidgin.im / viewmtn/revision/diff/884d44222e8c81ecec51c25e07d005e002a5479b/with/894460d22c434e73d60b71ec031611988e687c8b/libpurple/protocols/msn/slp.c
Broken Link
developer.pidgin.im / viewmtn/revision/info/894460d22c434e73d60b71ec031611988e687c8b
Broken Link
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/39801
Not ApplicableVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/41899
Not Applicable
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/58559
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18547
Third Party Advisory
mandriva.com / security/advisories
Broken Link
pidgin.im / news/security/index.php
Broken Link
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2010-0788.html
Third Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/40138
Broken LinkThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1014-1
Third Party Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/1141
Permissions RequiredVendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/2755
Permissions Required