CVE-2013-6483

Publication date 5 February 2014

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

The XMPP protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not properly determine whether the from address in an iq reply is consistent with the to address in an iq request, which allows remote attackers to spoof iq traffic or cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted reply.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
pidgin	13.10 saucy	Fixed 1:2.10.7-0ubuntu4.1.13.10.1
	12.10 quantal	Fixed 1:2.10.6-0ubuntu2.3
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 1:2.10.3-0ubuntu1.4
	10.04 LTS lucid	Ignored end of life

Notes

mdeslaur

this introduced a regression, which was fixed in 2.10.9: https://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/15879

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
pidgin	Upstream: http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/93d4bff19574 Upstream: http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/b8e2a5fbffd3

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)