CVE-2012-1178

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2012-01-17
Bugzilla:
803298: CVE-2012-1178 pidgin: Client abort in the MSN protocol plug-in by attempt to display certain, not UTF-8 encoded text

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2012-1178 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 4.3
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
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 5 (pidgin) RHSA-2012:1102 2012-07-19
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (pidgin) RHSA-2012:1102 2012-07-19
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) (pidgin) RHSA-2012:1102 2012-07-19

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