UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3696

nmevent.c in the Novell GroupWise protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.10 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted server message that triggers a large memory allocation.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / pidgin

Package

Name: pidgin
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/pidgin@1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.2?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.2

Affected versions

1:2.*

1:2.10.7-0ubuntu4.1

1:2.10.7-0ubuntu4.2

1:2.10.9-0ubuntu1

1:2.10.9-0ubuntu2

1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3

1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.2",
            "binary_name": "finch"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.2",
            "binary_name": "finch-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.2",
            "binary_name": "libpurple-bin"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.2",
            "binary_name": "libpurple-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.2",
            "binary_name": "libpurple0"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.2",
            "binary_name": "pidgin"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.2",
            "binary_name": "pidgin-data"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:2.10.9-0ubuntu3.2",
            "binary_name": "pidgin-dev"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}