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CVE-2014-0020
The IRC protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not validate argument counts, which allows remote IRC servers to cause a…
Medium5.0EPSS 2.7%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
The IRC protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not validate argument counts, which allows remote IRC servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted message.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.7% · top 14% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (12)
- openSUSE-SU-2014:0326 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/a167504359e5 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2014:0139 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/9f132a6855cd (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-2859 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=85 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/4d9be297d399 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2014:0239 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/6b0e0566af20 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-2100-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/7d0fb0c6d8d4 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/5845d9fa7084 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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