VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2013-6487

high
Published 2014-02-06 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1:1.11.3-1
sid Fixed 1:1.11.3-1
forky Fixed 1:1.11.3-1
bullseye Fixed 1:1.11.3-1
bookworm Fixed 1:1.11.3-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
pidginpidgin{"endIncluding":"2.10.7"}
pidginpidgin2.0.0
pidginpidgin2.0.1
pidginpidgin2.0.2
pidginpidgin2.1.0
pidginpidgin2.1.1
pidginpidgin2.10.0
pidginpidgin2.10.1
pidginpidgin2.10.2
pidginpidgin2.10.3
pidginpidgin2.10.4
pidginpidgin2.10.5
pidginpidgin2.10.6

References

CWEs

CWE-189

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.