Description
The IRC protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not validate argument counts, which allows remote IRC servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted message.
Published: 2014-02-06
Score: 5.0 Medium
EPSS: 3.5% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2859-1 pidgin security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2014-0121 The IRC protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not validate argument counts, which allows remote IRC servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted message.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2100-1 Pidgin vulnerabilities
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Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T08:58:26.563Z

Reserved: 2013-12-03T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2014-0020

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2014-02-06T16:10:59.217

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2014-0020

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2014-01-28T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2014-0020 - Bugzilla

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