Information Exposure Affecting pidgin package, versions [,2.7.10)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PIDGIN-2380394
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed8 Aug 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 8 Aug 2012

CVE-2011-4922  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade pidgin to version 2.7.10 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure cipher.c in the Cipher API in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.7.10 retains encryption-key data in process memory, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by reading a core file or other representation of memory contents.

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