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CVE-2010-1624

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2010-05-14 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The msn_emoticon_msg function in slp.c in the MSN protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.7.0 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a custom emoticon in a malformed SLP message.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 8.04, 9.10, 10.04, 10.10
• Pidgin: before 2.7.0 — fixed in 2.7.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Pidgin 2.7.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/diff/884d44222e8c81ecec51c25e07d005e002a5479b/with/894460d22c434e73d60b71ec031611988e687c8b/libpurple/protocols/msn/slp.c
• http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/894460d22c434e73d60b71ec031611988e687c8b
• http://secunia.com/advisories/39801
• http://secunia.com/advisories/41899
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:097
• http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/index.php?id=46
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0788.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/40138
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1014-1
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1141
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2755
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=589973

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