CVE-2007-4999 (GCVE-0-2007-4999)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-10-29 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 15:17
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26205 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=24 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3624 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://osvdb.org/38695 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://secunia.com/advisories/27495 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-an… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483580/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://secunia.com/advisories/27372 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/27858 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-548-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
Date Public
2007-10-24 00:00
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      "status": "interim",
      "title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2007-4999",
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