CVE-2010-2528: Pidgin

Medium severity, CVSS 4.0. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The clientautoresp function in family_icbm.c in the oscar protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.7.2 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via an X-Status message that lacks the expected end tag for a (1) desc or (2) title element.

Affected products

• Pidgin Pidgin: up to and including 2.7.1; version 2.0.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.0.2 only; version 2.1.0 only; version 2.1.1 only; …

Published 2010-07-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.