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CVE-2015-8833

Published: 12/04/2016 Updated: 04/08/2021
CVSS v2 Base Score: 10 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 9.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 890
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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Vulnerability Summary

Use-after-free vulnerability in the create_smp_dialog function in gtk-dialog.c in the Off-the-Record Messaging (OTR) pidgin-otr plugin prior to 4.0.2 for Pidgin allows remote malicious users to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to the "Authenticate buddy" menu item.

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Vendor Advisories

Debian Security Advisories: DSA-3528-1 pidgin-otr -- security update
Stefan Sperling discovered that pidgin-otr, a Pidgin plugin implementing Off-The-Record messaging, contained a use-after-free bug This could be used by a malicious remote user to intentionally crash the application, thus causing a denial-of-service For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 401-1+deb8u1 For th ...

References

NVD-CWE-Otherhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/09/8https://bugs.otr.im/issues/128https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/39-Heap-use-after-free-in-Pidgin-OTR-plugin-CVE-2015-8833.htmlhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/09/13https://bugs.otr.im/issues/88https://lists.cypherpunks.ca/pipermail/otr-users/2016-March/002582.htmlhttps://bugs.otr.im/projects/pidgin-otr/repository/revisions/aaf551b9dd5cbba8c4abaa3d4dc7ead860efef94http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84295http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3528http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-03/msg00109.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00095.htmlhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-10https://nvd.nist.govhttps://www.debian.org/security/./dsa-3528
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