CVE-2013-0273: Pidgin

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

sametime.c in the Sametime protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.7 does not properly terminate long user IDs, which allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted packet.

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.