CVE-2012-2214

Severity: low (CVSS 3.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-07-03 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

proxy.c in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.4 does not properly handle canceled SOCKS5 connection attempts, which allows user-assisted remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a sequence of XMPP file-transfer requests.

Affected products

Pidgin: through 2.10.3; 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.2.0 (+41)

References

http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/5f9d676cefdb
http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=62
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:082
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17886
http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/5f9d676cefdb
http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=62
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:082
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17886

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