CVE-2007-4999
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3EPSS 1.8%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 1.8% (79th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-4980)
- Published
- October 29, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-4980 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- pidgin / pidgin
- pidgin / pidgin
- pidgin / pidgin
References
- http://osvdb.org/38695
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27372(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27495
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27858
- http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=24(Patch)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483580/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26205
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-548-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3624
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38132
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18357
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00011.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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