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CVE-2013-6485

pidgin: Heap-based buffer overflow when parsing chunked HTTP responses

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.1

CVSS 2.0

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Published · January 28, 2014

Updated · June 27, 2026

Description

Buffer overflow in util.c in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 allows remote HTTP servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via an invalid chunk-size field in chunked transfer-coding data.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 5.1
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CWE-190 · Integer Overflow or Wraparound