CVEvulnerability

CVE-2011-3594

4.3 MEDIUM Published 2011-11-04 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2011-11-04
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-119

Description

The g_markup_escape_text function in the SILC protocol plug-in in libpurple 2.10.0 and earlier, as used in Pidgin and possibly other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via invalid UTF-8 sequences that trigger use of invalid pointers and an out-of-bounds read, related to interactions with certain versions of glib2.

Affected configurations

• pidgin libpurple (<= 2.10.0) • pidgin libpurple 1.0 • pidgin libpurple 2.0.0 • pidgin libpurple 2.0.1 • pidgin libpurple 2.0.2 • pidgin libpurple 2.1.0 • pidgin libpurple 2.1.1 • pidgin libpurple 2.2.0 • pidgin libpurple 2.2.1 • pidgin libpurple 2.2.2 • pidgin libpurple 2.3.0 • pidgin libpurple 2.3.1 • pidgin libpurple 2.4.0 • pidgin libpurple 2.4.1 • pidgin libpurple 2.4.2 • pidgin libpurple 2.4.3 • pidgin libpurple 2.5.0 • pidgin libpurple 2.5.1 • pidgin libpurple 2.5.2 • pidgin libpurple 2.5.3 • pidgin libpurple 2.5.4 • pidgin libpurple 2.5.5 • pidgin libpurple 2.5.6 • pidgin libpurple 2.5.7 • pidgin libpurple 2.5.8 • pidgin libpurple 2.5.9 • pidgin libpurple 2.6.0 • pidgin libpurple 2.6.1 • pidgin libpurple 2.6.2 • pidgin libpurple 2.6.3 • pidgin libpurple 2.6.4 • pidgin libpurple 2.6.5 • pidgin libpurple 2.6.6 • pidgin libpurple 2.7.0 • pidgin libpurple 2.7.1 • pidgin libpurple 2.7.2 • pidgin libpurple 2.7.3 • pidgin libpurple 2.7.4 • pidgin libpurple 2.7.5 • pidgin libpurple 2.7.6 • pidgin libpurple 2.7.7 • pidgin libpurple 2.7.8 • pidgin libpurple 2.7.9 • pidgin libpurple 2.7.10 • pidgin libpurple 2.7.11 • pidgin libpurple 2.8.0 • pidgin libpurple 2.9.0 • pidgin pidgin

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness

References