CVE-2013-6487

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-02-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Integer overflow in libpurple/protocols/gg/lib/http.c in the Gadu-Gadu (gg) parser in Pidgin before 2.10.8 allows remote attackers to have an unspecified impact via a large Content-Length value, which triggers a buffer overflow.

Affected products

Pidgin: through 2.10.7; 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.10.0 (+6)

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0074.html
http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/ec15aa187aa0
http://libgadu.net/releases/1.11.3.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-February/128277.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00039.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00005.html
http://vrt-blog.snort.org/2014/01/vrt-2013-1001-cve-2013-6487-buffer.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2852
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2859
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:039
http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=82
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65188

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