CVE-2014-3696

medium

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.

References

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1854

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2390-1

http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3055

http://secunia.com/advisories/61968

http://secunia.com/advisories/60741

http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=88

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00037.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00023.html

http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/44fd89158777

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2014-10-29

Updated: 2025-04-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L