CVE-2012-2214

EPSS 0.54%

Published: 7/3/2012Modified: 4/28/2026

Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2012-2214

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 packages (1)

Debian/pidginfrom 0, < 2.10.4-1

References (1)

ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-2214