VUPEN Security - Pidgin Invalid HTML Data Handling Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability / Exploit (Security Advisories)

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>> Pidgin Invalid HTML Data Handling Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

Title : Pidgin Invalid HTML Data Handling Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
Advisory ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-3624
CVE ID : CVE-2007-4999
Rated as : Low Risk

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-10-25

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A vulnerability has been identified in Pidgin, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service. This issue is caused by an error when processing a message containing invalid HTML data, which could be exploited by remote attackers to crash an affected application, leading to denial of service condition.

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Jeffrey Rosen.

ChangeLog

2007-10-25 : Initial release

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