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CVE-2013-6489

pidgin: Heap-based buffer overflow in MXit emoticon parsing

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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

Integer signedness error in the MXit functionality in Pidgin before 2.10.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a crafted emoticon value, which triggers an integer overflow and a buffer overflow.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

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