CVE-2013-6481: Pidgin

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 3.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

libpurple/protocols/yahoo/libymsg.c in Pidgin before 2.10.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a Yahoo! P2P message with a crafted length field, which triggers a buffer over-read.

Affected products

• Pidgin Pidgin: up to and including 2.10.7; 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 2014-02-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.