CVE-2013-6477

pidgin: DoS when handling timestamps in the XMPP plugin

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

4.3

CVSS 2.0

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Published · January 28, 2014

Updated · January 8, 2026

Description

Multiple integer signedness errors in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted timestamp value in an XMPP message.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE-190 · Integer Overflow or Wraparound