Fluid Attacks Database

Description

The SIMPLE protocol functionality in Pidgin before 2.10.8 allows remote attackers to have an unspecified impact via a negative Content-Length header, which triggers a buffer overflow.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

Ecosystem	Package	Affected version	Patched versions
debian 11	pidgin	>=0 <2.10.8-1	2.10.8-1
debian 13	pidgin	>=0 <2.10.8-1	2.10.8-1
debian 12	pidgin	>=0 <2.10.8-1	2.10.8-1
debian 14	pidgin	>=0 <2.10.8-1	2.10.8-1
rpm rhel5	pidgin	<0:2.6.6-32.el5	0:2.6.6-32.el5
rpm rhel6	pidgin	<0:2.7.9-27.el6	0:2.7.9-27.el6

Aliases

1. CVE-2013-64902. NVD-2013-64903. OSV-DEBIAN-2013-64904. OSV-2013-64905. SECURITY-TRACKER-CVE-2013-6490

References

1. https://github.com/Everdoh/CVE-2013-6490

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