CVE-2017-2640
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-2640
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-2640.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-2640
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2018-07-27T18:29:00.970Z
- Modified
- 2026-02-11T00:42:43.640460Z
- Severity
-
- 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
-
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.
- References
-
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96775
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1854
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2640
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201706-10
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3806
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2640
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2640
Affected packages
Git / github.com/ruby/json
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/ruby/json
- Events
-
Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedFixed
Affected versions
v1.*
v1.1.8
v1.2.0
v1.2.1
v1.2.2
v1.2.3
v1.4.0
v1.4.1
v1.4.2
v1.4.3
v1.4.4
v1.4.4-java
v1.4.5
v1.4.6
v1.5.0
v1.5.1
v1.5.2
v1.5.3
v1.5.4
v1.6.0
v1.6.1
v1.6.2
v1.6.3
v1.6.4
v1.6.5
v1.6.6
v1.6.7
v1.7.0
v1.7.1
v1.7.2
v1.7.3
v1.7.4
v1.7.5
v1.7.6
v1.7.7
v1.8.0
v1.8.1
v1.8.2
v1.8.3
v2.*
v2.0.0
v2.0.1
v2.0.2
v2.1.0
v2.10.0
v2.10.1
v2.10.2
v2.11.0
v2.11.1
v2.11.2
v2.11.3
v2.2.0
v2.3.0
v2.3.1
v2.4.1
v2.5.0
v2.5.1
v2.6.0
v2.6.1
v2.6.2
v2.6.3
v2.7.0
v2.7.1
v2.7.2
v2.7.3
v2.7.3.rc1
v2.8.0
v2.8.1
v2.8.2
v2.9.0
v2.9.1