CVE-2014-0020

pidgin: DoS in IRC protocol plugin due to arguement 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 · November 21, 2025

Description

The IRC protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not validate argument counts, which allows remote IRC servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted message.

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-628 · Function Call with Incorrectly Specified Arguments