VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2013-1769

medium
Published 2014-01-21 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

Description

A certain hashing algorithm in Telepathy Gabble 0.16.x before 0.16.5 and 0.17.x before 0.17.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via a crafted message.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
simon_mcvittietelepathy_gabble0.16.0
simon_mcvittietelepathy_gabble0.16.1
simon_mcvittietelepathy_gabble0.16.2
simon_mcvittietelepathy_gabble0.16.3
simon_mcvittietelepathy_gabble0.16.4
simon_mcvittietelepathy_gabble0.17.0
simon_mcvittietelepathy_gabble0.17.1
simon_mcvittietelepathy_gabble0.17.2

References

CWEs

CWE-310

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.