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Vulnerability record · CVE-2010-0277 · published 9 January 2010

CVE-2010-0277: Adium vulnerability

Adium · Adium

slp.c in the MSN protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.6.6, including 2.6.4, and Adium 1.3.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a malformed MSNSLP INVITE request in an SLP message, a different issue than CVE-2010-0013.

5.0 CVSS 2.0 Medium EPSS 2.3% · top 17.3% CWE-399 · CWE-399
5.0CVSS 2.0 base score
2.3%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
2Affected product versions listed by NVD
52References
16 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

slp.c in the MSN protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.6.6, including 2.6.4, and Adium 1.3.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a malformed MSNSLP INVITE request in an SLP message, a different issue than CVE-2010-0013.

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

2 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
http://blogs.sun.com/security/entry/cve_2010_0277_malformed_msn
http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog
http://events.ccc.de/congress/2009/Fahrplan/events/3596.en.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035332.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035347.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035409.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html
http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=43
http://secunia.com/advisories/38563 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/38640 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/38658 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/38712 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/38915 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/41868 Vendor Advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:041
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:085
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/01/07/2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38294
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-902-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0413 Vendor Advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1020 Vendor Advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2693 Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=554335
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18348
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9421
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0115.html
http://blogs.sun.com/security/entry/cve_2010_0277_malformed_msn
http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog
http://events.ccc.de/congress/2009/Fahrplan/events/3596.en.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035332.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035347.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035409.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html
http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=43
http://secunia.com/advisories/38563 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/38640 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/38658 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/38712 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/38915 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/41868 Vendor Advisory

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2010-0277), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-28). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.