medium5.0
CVE-2012-6152
The Yahoo!
Impact
The Yahoo! protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not properly validate UTF-8 data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via crafted byte sequences.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Pidgin | Pidgin | through 2.10.7 Versions 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.1.0, 2.1.1 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/b0345c25f886
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00039.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00005.html
- http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=70
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2100-1
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0139.html
- http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/b0345c25f886
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00039.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00005.html
- http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=70
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2100-1
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0139.html