DEBIAN-CVE-2010-3711

DEBIAN-CVE-2010-3711 PUBLISHED CVSS 6.900000095367432 MEDIUM

libpurple in Pidgin before 2.7.4 does not properly validate the return value of the purple_base64_decode function, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted message, related to the plugins for MSN, MySpaceIM, XMPP, and Yahoo! and the NTLM authentication support.

Risk Scores

CVSS 4.0

6.900000095367432

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Debian:13	pidgin	0, 0, 0
Debian:12	pidgin	0, 0, 0
Debian:14	pidgin	0, 0, 0
Debian:11	pidgin	0, 0, 0

Timeline

Oct 28, 2010 CVE Published
Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-3711 advisory

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