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CVE-2013-6479

util.c in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not properly allocate memory for HTTP responses...

5.0 MediumFix available

util.c in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not properly allocate memory for HTTP responses that are inconsistent with the Content-Length header, which allows remote HTTP servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted response.

Exploit likelihood

2.23%Up 1.1 points since Feb 4, 2022
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 5.0

util.c in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not properly allocate memory for HTTP responses that are inconsistent with the Content-Length header, which allows remote HTTP servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted response.

Record
CVE-2013-6479
CVSS 2.0
5.0 MediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness
CWE-399
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

util.c in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not properly allocate memory for HTTP responses that are inconsistent with the Content-Length header, which allows remote HTTP servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted response.

Record
CVE-2013-6479
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2013-6283 No score

util.c in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not properly allocate memory for HTTP responses that are inconsistent with the Content-Length header, which allows remote HTTP servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted response.

Record
EUVD-2013-6283
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-5j7m-x5mf-jqrj No score

util.c in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not properly allocate memory for HTTP responses...

util.c in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not properly allocate memory for HTTP responses that are inconsistent with the Content-Length header, which allows remote HTTP servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted response.

Record
GHSA-5j7m-x5mf-jqrj
Updated
2026-11-02
OSV No score

util.c in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not properly allocate memory for HTTP responses that are inconsistent with the Content-Length header, which allows remote HTTP servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted response.

Record
CVE-2013-6479
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2013-6479 No score

util.c in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not properly allocate memory for HTTP responses that are inconsistent with the Content-Length header, which allows remote HTTP servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted response.

Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2013-6479
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVMGASA-2014-0034 No score

Updated pidgin package fixes security vulnerabilities

Many places in the Yahoo! protocol plugin assumed incoming strings were UTF-8 and failed to transcode from non-UTF-8 encodings. This can lead to a crash when receiving strings that aren't UTF-8 (CVE-2012-6152).

A remote XMPP user can trigger a crash on some systems by sending a message with a timestamp in the distant future (CVE-2013-6477).

libX11 forcefully exits causing a crash when Pidgin tries to create an exceptionally wide tooltip window when hovering the pointer over a long URL (CVE-2013-6478).

A malicious server or man-in-the-middle could send a malformed HTTP response that could lead to a crash (CVE-2013-6479).

The Yahoo! protocol plugin failed to validate a length field before trying to read from a buffer, which could result in reading past the end of the buffer which could cause a crash when reading a P2P message (CVE-2013-6481).

NULL pointer dereferences in the MSN protocol plugin due to a malformed Content-Length header, or a malicious server or man-in-the-middle sending a specially crafted OIM data XML response or SOAP response (CVE-2013-6482).

The XMPP protocol plugin failed to ensure that iq replies came from the person they were sent to. A remote user could send a spoofed iq reply and attempt to guess the iq id. This could allow an attacker to inject fake data or trigger a null pointer dereference (CVE-2013-6483).

Incorrect error handling when reading the response from a STUN server could lead to a crash (CVE-2013-6484).

A malicious server or man-in-the-middle could cause a buffer overflow by sending a malformed HTTP response with chunked Transfer-Encoding with invalid chunk sizes (CVE-2013-6485).

A malicious server or man-in-the-middle could send a large value for Content-Length and cause an integer overflow which could lead to a buffer overflow in Gadu-Gadu HTTP parsing (CVE-2013-6487).

A specially crafted emoticon value could cause an integer overflow which could lead to a buffer overflow in MXit emoticon parsing (CVE-2013-6489).

A Content-Length of -1 could lead to a buffer overflow in SIMPLE header parsing (CVE-2013-6490).

A malicious server or man-in-the-middle could trigger a crash in IRC argument parsing in libpurple by sending a message with fewer than expected arguments (CVE-2014-0020).

Record
MGASA-2014-0034
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:10432-1 No score

finch-2.11.0-4.1 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the finch-2.11.0-4.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:10432-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
pidgin
Debian:12
before 2.10.8-1
2.10.8-1
pidgin
Debian:13
before 2.10.8-1
2.10.8-1
pidgin
Debian:14
before 2.10.8-1
2.10.8-1
pidgin
Debian:7
before 2.10.9-1~deb7u1, plus listed versions
2.10.6-32.10.7-12.10.7-22.10.7-2~bpo70+12.10.8-12.10.9-1~bpo60+1
2.10.9-1~deb7u1
pidgin
Mageia:3
before 2.10.9-1.mga3
2.10.9-1.mga3
finch
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client
before 0:2.6.6-32.el5
0:2.6.6-32.el5
libpurple
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client
before 0:2.6.6-32.el5
0:2.6.6-32.el5
libpurple-perl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client
before 0:2.6.6-32.el5
0:2.6.6-32.el5
libpurple-tcl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client
before 0:2.6.6-32.el5
0:2.6.6-32.el5
pidgin
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client
before 0:2.6.6-32.el5
0:2.6.6-32.el5
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
pidgin-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client
before 0:2.6.6-32.el5
0:2.6.6-32.el5
pidgin-perl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client
before 0:2.6.6-32.el5
0:2.6.6-32.el5
finch-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client_workstation
before 0:2.6.6-32.el5
0:2.6.6-32.el5
libpurple-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client_workstation
before 0:2.6.6-32.el5
0:2.6.6-32.el5
pidgin
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client_workstation
before 0:2.6.6-32.el5
0:2.6.6-32.el5
pidgin-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client_workstation
before 0:2.6.6-32.el5
0:2.6.6-32.el5
pidgin-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client_workstation
before 0:2.6.6-32.el5
0:2.6.6-32.el5
libpurple
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
pidgin
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
pidgin-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
finch
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
finch-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
libpurple-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
libpurple-perl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
libpurple-tcl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
pidgin-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
pidgin-docs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
pidgin-perl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
finch
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
finch-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
libpurple
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
libpurple-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
libpurple-perl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
libpurple-tcl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
pidgin
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
pidgin-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
pidgin-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
pidgin-docs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
pidgin-perl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
libpurple
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
pidgin
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
pidgin-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
finch
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
finch-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
libpurple-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
libpurple-perl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
libpurple-tcl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
pidgin-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
pidgin-docs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
pidgin-perl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
aliasesEUVD
first indexedCVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

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In short

CVE-2013-6479 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 5.0) in Pidgin, published February 5, 2014. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 2.23%, the 82nd percentile. Fixed in pidgin 2.10.8-1.

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