Description
libpurple in Pidgin 2.1.0 through 2.2.1, when using HTML logging, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL dereference and application crash) via a message that contains invalid HTML data, a different vector than CVE-2007-4996.
Published: 2007-10-29
Score: 4.3 Medium
EPSS: 1.5% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2007-4980 libpurple in Pidgin 2.1.0 through 2.2.1, when using HTML logging, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL dereference and application crash) via a message that contains invalid HTML data, a different vector than CVE-2007-4996.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-548-1 Pidgin vulnerability
History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T15:17:27.903Z

Reserved: 2007-09-20T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2007-4999

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Status : Modified

Published: 2007-10-29T22:46:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2007-4999

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