CVE-2013-6483

Description

The XMPP protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not properly determine whether the from address in an iq reply is consistent with the to address in an iq request, which allows remote attackers to spoof iq traffic or cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted reply.

Risk Information

Base Score
7.5
MODERATE
Vector
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
0.863

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
Multiple vulnerabilities affected in Pidgin 2.9.0Windows

Patch Details

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Patch IDPatch Description
PATCH-336424Pidgin (2.14.13)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234