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CVE-2012-6152
N/ADescription
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.
CVE Details
CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A
Published2/6/2014
Last Modified4/29/2026
Sourcenvd
Honeypot Sightings0
Affected Products
pidgin:pidgin
Weaknesses (CWE)
CWE-20
References
http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/b0345c25f886(secalert@redhat.com)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00039.html(secalert@redhat.com)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00005.html(secalert@redhat.com)
http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=70(secalert@redhat.com)
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2100-1(secalert@redhat.com)
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0139.html(secalert@redhat.com)
http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/b0345c25f886(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00039.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00005.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=70(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2100-1(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0139.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
IOC Correlations
No correlations recorded
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