DEBIAN-CVE-2012-2214

DEBIAN-CVE-2012-2214 PUBLISHED CVSS 6.900000095367432 MEDIUM

proxy.c in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.4 does not properly handle canceled SOCKS5 connection attempts, which allows user-assisted remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a sequence of XMPP file-transfer requests.

Risk Scores

CVSS v4.0

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:12	pidgin	0, 0, 0
Debian:13	pidgin	0, 0, 0
Debian:11	pidgin	0, 0, 0
Debian:14	pidgin	0, 0, 0

Timeline

Jul 3, 2012 CVE Published
Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-2214 advisory

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