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CVE-2010-0277

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2010-01-09 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-399

Description

slp.c in the MSN protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.6.6, including 2.6.4, and Adium 1.3.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a malformed MSNSLP INVITE request in an SLP message, a different issue than CVE-2010-0013.

Affected products

• Adium: 1.3.8
• Pidgin: through 2.6.5; 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.2.0 (+22)

References

• http://blogs.sun.com/security/entry/cve_2010_0277_malformed_msn
• http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog
• http://events.ccc.de/congress/2009/Fahrplan/events/3596.en.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035332.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035347.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035409.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html
• http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=43
• http://secunia.com/advisories/38563
• http://secunia.com/advisories/38640
• http://secunia.com/advisories/38658
• http://secunia.com/advisories/38712

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