CVE-2012-6152 | BDVDB-2026-59767 Detail

Description#

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.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00005.html
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0139.html
http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=70
http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/b0345c25f886
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00039.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2100-1

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12014-02-06Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-08-06Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.