cve-2014-3698-00

Summary Potential information leak from XMPP
Date 2014-10-22
CVE Number CVE-2014-3698
Discovered By Thijs Alkemade and Paul Aurich
Fixed In Release 2.10.10

Description

A malicious server and possibly even a malicious remote user could create a carefully crafted XMPP message that causes libpurple to send an XMPP message containing arbitrary memory.

Mitigation

Correctly determine the start and end position of buffers when performing stringprep.

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