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Alpine Linux: CVE-2013-0272: pidgin upgrade to 2.10.7

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2013-0272: pidgin upgrade to 2.10.7

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/16/2013
Created
07/25/2018
Added
09/20/2017
Modified
09/22/2017

Description

Buffer overflow in http.c in the MXit protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.7 allows remote servers to execute arbitrary code via a long HTTP header.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-pidgin

References

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