CVE-2011-4601

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2011-12-10
Bugzilla:
761517: CVE-2011-4601 pidgin (libpurple): Invalid UTF-8 string handling in OSCAR messages

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

family_feedbag.c in the oscar protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.1 does not perform the expected UTF-8 validation on message data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted (1) AIM or (2) ICQ message associated with buddy-list addition.

Find out more about CVE-2011-4601 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 5
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (pidgin) RHSA-2011:1820 2011-12-14
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (pidgin) RHSA-2011:1820 2011-12-14
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) (pidgin) RHSA-2011:1820 2011-12-14
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (pidgin) RHSA-2011:1821 2011-12-14

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the Pidgin project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Evgeny Boger as the original reporter.

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