Pidgin / lib purple XMPP remote crash

Paul Aurich darkrain42 at pidgin.im
Fri Apr 20 10:36:10 EDT 2012


And jv.gutierrezb at gmail.com spoke on 04/20/2012 03:39 AM, saying:
> I've just tested your patch in a linux environment and works fine. I can't
> build WinPidgin, but if you provide me the patched DLL I'll test it.

Are you able to reproduce the crash in a linux environment w/o the patch?
If so, that makes me comfortable in the fix.  Otherwise, I'd like to nudge
someone to build a new DLL for you, just to be safe.

> Btw, i just introduced a typo in the POC name and you reproduced it in the
> name of the patch. Actually the CVE is CVE-2012-2214 and not 2012-2144.
> Excuse the mistake please.

Oops, thanks.  I saved the patch referencing the name of your PoC script (heh).

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Paul Aurich

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