REDHAT-BUG-722939: Null Pointer Dereference
First published: Mon Jul 18 2011(Updated: )
A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way IRC protocol plug-in of the Pidgin multiprotocol instant messaging client processed certain nick names, when list set of users (/who command) was issued upon user session startup and connecting user has had certain encoding configuration setup. A remote attacker could use a specially-crafted string as their nickname to cause the Pidgin client on the side of the victim (connecting user) to crash. Upstream bug report: [1] <a href="http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/14341">http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/14341</a> Acknowledgements: Red Hat would like to thank the Pidgin project for reporting this issue.
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Pidgin |
Never miss a vulnerability like this again
Sign up to SecAlerts for real-time vulnerability data matched to your software, aggregated from hundreds of sources.
Reference Links
- agent/type
- agent/last-modified-date
- agent/first-publish-date
- collector/redhat-bugzilla
- source/Red Hat
- alias/CVE-2011-2943
- agent/severity
- agent/references
- agent/weakness
- agent/event
- agent/description
- agent/trending
- agent/source
- agent/softwarecombine
- agent/tags
- agent/guess-ai
- agent/software-canonical-lookup
- agent/software-canonical-lookup-request
- vendor/pidgin
- canonical/pidgin