CVE-2017-2640
Fixed in a distro release EPSS 6%CVSS 7.5
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.
Products: pidgin
Distro releases
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Alpine 3.2 | pidgin | 2.10.11-r1 |
| Alpine 3.3 | pidgin | 2.10.11-r3 |
| Alpine 3.4 | pidgin | 2.11.0-r1 |
| Alpine 3.5 | pidgin | 2.11.0-r1 |
| Debian 12 | pidgin | 2.12.0-1 |
| Debian 13 | pidgin | 2.12.0-1 |
| Debian 14 | pidgin | 2.12.0-1 |
| Debian 7 | pidgin | 2.10.10-1~deb7u3 |
| Debian 8 | pidgin | 2.11.0-0+deb8u2 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | finch | 0:2.10.11-5.el7 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | finch-devel | 0:2.10.11-5.el7 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | libpurple | 0:2.10.11-5.el7 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | libpurple-devel | 0:2.10.11-5.el7 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | libpurple-perl | 0:2.10.11-5.el7 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | libpurple-tcl | 0:2.10.11-5.el7 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | pidgin | 0:2.10.11-5.el7 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | pidgin-debuginfo | 0:2.10.11-5.el7 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | pidgin-devel | 0:2.10.11-5.el7 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | pidgin-perl | 0:2.10.11-5.el7 |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 | pidgin | 2.6.6-0.30.3.1 |
| Ubuntu 14.04 LTS | pidgin | 1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.4 |
| Ubuntu 16.04 LTS | pidgin | 1:2.10.12-0ubuntu5.2 |
| openSUSE Tumbleweed | pidgin | 2.14.7-1.1 |