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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2012-2214

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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2012-2214

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
07/03/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/17/2015
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-finch
  • suse-upgrade-finch-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libpurple
  • suse-upgrade-libpurple-devel
  • suse-upgrade-pidgin
  • suse-upgrade-pidgin-devel

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