CVE-2011-3594 | BDVDB-2026-48138 Detail
Description#
The g_markup_escape_text function in the SILC protocol plug-in in libpurple 2.10.0 and earlier, as used in Pidgin and possibly other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via invalid UTF-8 sequences that trigger use of invalid pointers and an out-of-bounds read, related to interactions with certain versions of glib2.
Impact#
No impact statement in the source data.
Weaknesses#
No weakness recorded in the source data.
References#
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18034
- http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/diff/be5e66abad2af29604bc794cc4c6600ab12751f3/with/7eb1f6d56cc58bbb5b56b7df53955d36b9b419b8
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=743481
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:183
- http://secunia.com/advisories/46376
- http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/14636
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1371.html
- http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=56
Exploit#
No public exploit known
History#
- Version 1Record published in the CVE List.
- Version 2Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.