CVE-2014-3695

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-10-29 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

markup.c in the MXit protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.10 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a large length value in an emoticon response.

Affected products

Pidgin: through 2.10.9; 2.10.0, 2.10.1, 2.10.2, 2.10.3, 2.10.4, 2.10.5 (+3)

References

http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/6436e14bdb9d
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00023.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00037.html
http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=87
http://secunia.com/advisories/60741
http://secunia.com/advisories/61968
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3055
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2390-1
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1854
http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/6436e14bdb9d
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00023.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00037.html

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