VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2010-3711

CVSS score4 MEDIUM
EPSS probability3.27%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2010-10-28
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

libpurple in Pidgin before 2.7.4 does not properly validate the return value of the purple_base64_decode function, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted message, related to the plugins for MSN, MySpaceIM, XMPP, and Yahoo! and the NTLM authentication support.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-20: Improper Input Validation

Primary references