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CVE-2013-6489

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.8% 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 signedness error in the MXit functionality in Pidgin before 2.10.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a crafted emoticon value, which triggers an integer overflow and 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, 2.2.0 (+46)

References

• http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/4c897372b5a4
• http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2859
• http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=83
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65192
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2100-1
• https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0139.html
• http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/4c897372b5a4
• http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2859
• http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=83
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65192
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2100-1
• https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0139.html

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