CVE-2012-1178

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

The msn_oim_report_to_user function in oim.c in the MSN protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.2 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an OIM message that lacks UTF-8 encoding.

The msn_oim_report_to_user function in oim.c in the MSN protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.2 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an OIM message that lacks UTF-8 encoding.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 12 years ago

2012-03-15 10:55:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2018-01-18 02:29:00

Affected Software

Pidgin 2.0.0

2.0.0

Pidgin 2.0.1

2.0.1

Pidgin 2.0.2

2.0.2

Pidgin 2.1.0

2.1.0

Pidgin 2.1.1

2.1.1

Pidgin 2.2.0

2.2.0

Pidgin 2.2.1

2.2.1

Pidgin 2.2.2

2.2.2

Pidgin 2.3.0

2.3.0

Pidgin 2.3.1

2.3.1

Pidgin 2.4.0

2.4.0

Pidgin 2.4.1

2.4.1

Pidgin 2.4.2

2.4.2

Pidgin 2.4.3

2.4.3

Pidgin 2.5.0

2.5.0

Pidgin 2.5.1

2.5.1

Pidgin 2.5.2

2.5.2

Pidgin 2.5.3

2.5.3

Pidgin 2.5.4

2.5.4

Pidgin 2.5.5

2.5.5

Pidgin 2.5.6

2.5.6

Pidgin 2.5.6

2.5.7

Pidgin 2.5.8

2.5.8

Pidgin 2.5.9

2.5.9

Pidgin 2.6.0

2.6.0

Pidgin 2.6.1

2.6.1

Pidgin 2.6.2

2.6.2

Pidgin 2.6.3

2.6.3

Pidgin 2.6.4

2.6.4

Pidgin 2.6.5

2.6.5

Pidgin 2.6.6

2.6.6

Pidgin 2.7.1

2.7.1

Pidgin 2.7.2

2.7.2

Pidgin 2.7.3

2.7.3

Pidgin 2.7.4

2.7.4

Pidgin 2.7.5

2.7.5

Pidgin 2.7.6

2.7.6

Pidgin 2.7.7

2.7.7

Pidgin 2.7.8

2.7.8

Pidgin 2.7.9

2.7.9

Pidgin 2.7.10

2.7.10

Pidgin 2.7.11

2.7.11

Pidgin 2.8.0

2.8.0

Pidgin 2.9.0

2.9.0

Pidgin 2.10.0

2.10.0

Pidgin

References

http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/14884

http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/diff/60f8379d0a610538cf42e0dd9ab1436c8b9308cd/with/3053d6a37cc6d8774aba7607b992a4408216adcd/libpurple/protocols/msn/oim.c

http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/3053d6a37cc6d8774aba7607b992a4408216adcd

http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=61

Vendor Advisory

RHSA-2012:1102

50005

MDVSA-2012:029

52475

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18019

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