FKIE_CVE-2007-4999
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2007-10-29 22:46 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:45
Severity
Summary
libpurple in Pidgin 2.1.0 through 2.2.1, when using HTML logging, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL dereference and application crash) via a message that contains invalid HTML data, a different vector than CVE-2007-4996.
References
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