CVE-2013-6478

pidgin: DoS when rendering long URLs

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

4.3

CVSS 2.0

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Published · January 28, 2014

Updated · June 27, 2026

Description

gtkimhtml.c in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not properly interact with underlying library support for wide Pango layouts, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long URL that is examined with a tooltip.

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-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling