CVE-2014-3696: Pidgin

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

nmevent.c in the Novell GroupWise protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.10 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted server message that triggers a large memory allocation.

Affected products

• Pidgin Pidgin: up to and including 2.10.9; version 2.10.0 only; version 2.10.1 only; version 2.10.2 only; version 2.10.3 only; version 2.10.4 only; …

Published 2014-10-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.