Fluid Attacks Database

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.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

Ecosystem	Package	Affected version	Patched versions
debian 12	pidgin	>=0 <2.10.8-1	2.10.8-1
debian 13	pidgin	>=0 <2.10.8-1	2.10.8-1
debian 14	pidgin	>=0 <2.10.8-1	2.10.8-1
rpm rhel5	pidgin	<0:2.6.6-32.el5	0:2.6.6-32.el5
rpm rhel6	pidgin	<0:2.7.9-27.el6	0:2.7.9-27.el6
debian 11	pidgin	>=0 <2.10.8-1	2.10.8-1

Aliases

1. CVE-2012-61522. NVD-2012-61523. OSV-DEBIAN-2012-61524. OSV-2012-61525. SECURITY-TRACKER-CVE-2012-6152

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