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CVE-2016-1000030

pidgin: X.509 Certificates Improperly Imported

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

2.6

CVSS 2.0

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Published · June 21, 2016

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

Pidgin version <2.11.0 contains a vulnerability in X.509 Certificates imports specifically due to improper check of return values from gnutls_x509_crt_init() and gnutls_x509_crt_import() that can result in code execution. This attack appear to be exploitable via custom X.509 certificate from another client. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 2.11.0.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 2.6
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CWE not specified