Vulnerabilities / CVE-2016-1000030

critical

CVE-2016-1000030

pidgin: X.509 Certificates Improperly Imported

Published Modified CWE 295
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat2.6AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Red Hat (low).

Description

Pidgin version <2.11.0 contains a vulnerability in X.509 Certificates imports specifically due to improper check of return values from gnutls_x509_crt_init() and gnutls_x509_crt_import() that can result in code execution. This attack appear to be exploitable via custom X.509 certificate from another client. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 2.11.0.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
debian 11pidgin2.11.0-1
debian 12pidgin2.11.0-1
debian 13pidgin2.11.0-1
debian 14pidgin2.11.0-1
debian 8pidgin2.11.0-0+deb8u1
echopidgin2.11.0-1

References

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