An information disclosure flaw was discovered in the way Pidgin parsed XMPP messages. A malicious remote server or a man-in-the-middle attacker could potentially use this flaw to disclose a portion of memory belonging to the Pidgin process by sending a specially crafted XMPP message.
Find out more about CVE-2014-3698 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
Base Score | 5 |
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Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
Access Vector | Network |
Access Complexity | Low |
Authentication | None |
Confidentiality Impact | Partial |
Integrity Impact | None |
Availability Impact | None |
CVSS3 Base Score | 4.3 |
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CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
Attack Vector | Network |
Attack Complexity | Low |
Privileges Required | None |
User Interaction | Required |
Scope | Unchanged |
Confidentiality | Low |
Integrity Impact | None |
Availability Impact | None |
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Platform | Errata | Release Date |
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (pidgin) | RHSA-2017:1854 | 2017-08-01 |
Platform | Package | State |
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | pidgin | Will not fix |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | pidgin | Will not fix |