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CVE-2012-2214

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered	Topic
2012-05-12	libpurple -- Invalid memory dereference in the XMPP protocol plug-in by processing serie of specially-crafted file transfer requests

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CVE-2012-2214 at cve.mitre.org

Details

Type	Candidate
Name	CVE-2012-2214
Phase	Assigned(20120409)

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.

References

Source	Reference
CONFIRM	http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/5f9d676cefdb
CONFIRM	http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=62
OVAL	oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17886