CVE-2013-6481

pidgin: DoS caused due to OOB read in Yahoo protocol 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 · June 27, 2026

Description

libpurple/protocols/yahoo/libymsg.c in Pidgin before 2.10.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a Yahoo! P2P message with a crafted length field, which triggers a buffer over-read.

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-130 · Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency