| Name | CVE-2010-2528 |
| Description | The clientautoresp function in family_icbm.c in the oscar protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.7.2 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via an X-Status message that lacks the expected end tag for a (1) desc or (2) title element. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| pidgin (PTS) | bullseye | 2.14.1-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 2.14.12-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 2.14.13-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| pidgin | source | lenny | (not affected) | | | |
| pidgin | source | (unstable) | 2.7.2-1 | | | |
Notes
[lenny] - pidgin <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present, support for X-Status was added later)