FKIE_CVE-2012-6152

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2014-02-06 16:10 - Updated: 2025-04-11 00:51
Severity ?
Summary
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
secalert@redhat.comhttp://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/b0345c25f886
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00039.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00005.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=70Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2100-1
secalert@redhat.comhttps://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=70Vendor Advisory
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
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
pidgin pidgin *
pidgin pidgin 2.0.0
pidgin pidgin 2.0.1
pidgin pidgin 2.0.2
pidgin pidgin 2.1.0
pidgin pidgin 2.1.1
pidgin pidgin 2.2.0
pidgin pidgin 2.2.1
pidgin pidgin 2.2.2
pidgin pidgin 2.3.0
pidgin pidgin 2.3.1
pidgin pidgin 2.4.0
pidgin pidgin 2.4.1
pidgin pidgin 2.4.2
pidgin pidgin 2.4.3
pidgin pidgin 2.5.0
pidgin pidgin 2.5.1
pidgin pidgin 2.5.2
pidgin pidgin 2.5.3
pidgin pidgin 2.5.4
pidgin pidgin 2.5.5
pidgin pidgin 2.5.6
pidgin pidgin 2.5.7
pidgin pidgin 2.5.8
pidgin pidgin 2.5.9
pidgin pidgin 2.6.0
pidgin pidgin 2.6.1
pidgin pidgin 2.6.2
pidgin pidgin 2.6.3
pidgin pidgin 2.6.4
pidgin pidgin 2.6.5
pidgin pidgin 2.6.6
pidgin pidgin 2.7.0
pidgin pidgin 2.7.1
pidgin pidgin 2.7.2
pidgin pidgin 2.7.3
pidgin pidgin 2.7.4
pidgin pidgin 2.7.5
pidgin pidgin 2.7.6
pidgin pidgin 2.7.7
pidgin pidgin 2.7.8
pidgin pidgin 2.7.9
pidgin pidgin 2.7.10
pidgin pidgin 2.7.11
pidgin pidgin 2.8.0
pidgin pidgin 2.9.0
pidgin pidgin 2.10.0
pidgin pidgin 2.10.1
pidgin pidgin 2.10.2
pidgin pidgin 2.10.3
pidgin pidgin 2.10.4
pidgin pidgin 2.10.5
pidgin pidgin 2.10.6
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