CVE-2010-1624: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 5.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The msn_emoticon_msg function in slp.c in the MSN protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.7.0 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a custom emoticon in a malformed SLP message.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 8.04 only; version 9.10 only; version 10.04 only; version 10.10 only
• Pidgin Pidgin: before 2.7.0 (fixed in 2.7.0)

Published 2010-05-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.