CVE-2012-2214: Pidgin

Low severity, CVSS 3.5. EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

proxy.c in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.4 does not properly handle canceled SOCKS5 connection attempts, which allows user-assisted remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a sequence of XMPP file-transfer requests.

Affected products

• Pidgin Pidgin: up to and including 2.10.3; 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 2012-07-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.