CVE-2013-0272: Pidgin

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in http.c in the MXit protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.7 allows remote servers to execute arbitrary code via a long HTTP header.

Affected products

• Pidgin Pidgin: up to and including 2.10.6; 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 2013-02-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.