CVE-2007-4999
EPSS 1.5%
Description
libpurple in Pidgin 2.1.0 through 2.2.1, when using HTML logging, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL dereference and application crash) via a message that contains invalid HTML data, a different vector than CVE-2007-4996.
How to fix CVE-2007-4999
To remediate CVE-2007-4999, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/pidgin—upgrade to 2.2.2-1 or later
Is CVE-2007-4999 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 1.5%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 2.2.2-1