VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2012-2214

CVSS score3.5 LOW
EPSS probability2.20%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2012-07-03
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

proxy.c in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.4 does not properly handle canceled SOCKS5 connection attempts, which allows user-assisted remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a sequence of XMPP file-transfer requests.

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