Mend.io Vulnerability Database

What is a CVE vulnerability ID? icon What is a WS vulnerability ID? icon What is an MSC vulnerability ID? icon
New vulnerability? Tell us about it!
icon

We found results for “”

CVE-2013-6478

Good to know:

icon
icon

Date: February 6, 2014

gtkimhtml.c in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not properly interact with underlying library support for wide Pango layouts, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long URL that is examined with a tooltip.

Language: C

Severity Score

Related Resources (14)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-6478
http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=72
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00005.html
http://pidgin.im/pipermail/support/2013-March/012981.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2100-1
http://pidgin.im/pipermail/support/2013-March/012980.html
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-6478
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-6478
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00039.html
http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/2bb66ef1475e
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2859
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0139.html
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2013-6478
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2013-6478

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Input Validation

CWE-20

Top Fix

icon

Upgrade Version

Upgrade to version v2.10.8

Learn More

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): HIGH
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): MEDIUM
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): PARTIAL
Additional information:

Do you need more information?

Contact Us