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CVE-2013-6490

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 14.8% 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-119

Description

The SIMPLE protocol functionality in Pidgin before 2.10.8 allows remote attackers to have an unspecified impact via a negative Content-Length header, 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, 2.2.0 (+46)

References

• http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/6bd2dd10e5da
• http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2859
• http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=84
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65195
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2100-1
• https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0139.html
• http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/6bd2dd10e5da
• http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2859
• http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=84
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65195
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2100-1
• https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0139.html

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