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CVE-2011-4603

The silc_channel_message function in ops.c in the SILC protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.1 does not perform the expected UTF-8 validation on m…

Impact

The silc_channel_message function in ops.c in the SILC 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 message, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-3594.

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