>> Pidgin Invalid HTML Data Handling Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
Title : Pidgin Invalid HTML Data Handling Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-3624 CVE ID : CVE-2007-4999
Rated as : Low Risk
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2007-10-25
Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in Pidgin, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service. This issue is caused by an error when processing a message containing invalid HTML data, which could be exploited by remote attackers to crash an affected application, leading to denial of service condition.
