cve-2011-4939-00

Summary XMPP remote crash
Date 2011-07-08
CVE Number CVE-2011-4939
Discovered By Clemens Huebner in ticket
Fixed In Release 2.10.2

Description

Certain types of nickname changes in XMPP chat rooms can trigger a NULL pointer dereference in Pidgin, which triggers a crash.

Mitigation

Check for NULL before trying to use a struct.

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