NetSight
IP …
medium5.0

CVE-2011-4601

family_feedbag.c in the oscar protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.1 does not perform the expected UTF-8 validation on message data, which allows…

Impact

family_feedbag.c in the oscar protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.1 does not perform the expected UTF-8 validation on message data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted (1) AIM or (2) ICQ message associated with buddy-list addition.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
PidginPidgin
through 2.10.0
Versions 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.1.0, 2.1.1

Weakness classification

CWE-20

References