CVE-2017-2640

CRITICAL9.8EPSS 0.79%

pidgin - security update

Published: 7/27/2018Modified: 11/19/2025

Also known as:DSA-3806-1ALPINE-CVE-2017-2640DEBIAN-CVE-2017-2640

Description

An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in the way Pidgin before 2.12.0 processed XML content. A malicious remote server could potentially use this flaw to crash Pidgin or execute arbitrary code in the context of the pidgin process.

Affected packages (4)

Alpine/pidginfrom 0, < 2.10.11-r1
Debian/pidginfrom 0, < 2.12.0-1
Debian/pidginfrom 0, < 2.10.10-1~deb7u3
Debian/pidginfrom 0, < 2.11.0-0+deb8u2

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	CRITICAL9.8	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References (2)

ADVISORYhttps://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-2640
ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-2640