CVE-2012-6152

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.

🔗 References (12)

• secalert@redhathttp://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/b0345c25f886
• secalert@redhathttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00039.html
• secalert@redhathttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00005.html
• secalert@redhathttp://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=70
• secalert@redhathttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2100-1
• secalert@redhathttps://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0139.html
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/b0345c25f886
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00039.html
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00005.html
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=70
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2100-1
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0139.html