CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-3594
4.3 MEDIUM
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- 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
- http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/14636 Exploit
- http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/diff/be5e66abad2af29604bc794cc4c6600ab12751f3/with/7eb1f6d56cc58bbb5b56b7df53955d36b9b419b8 developer.pidgin.im
- http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=56 pidgin.im
- http://secunia.com/advisories/46376 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:183 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1371.html www.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=743481 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18034 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/14636 Exploit
- http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/diff/be5e66abad2af29604bc794cc4c6600ab12751f3/with/7eb1f6d56cc58bbb5b56b7df53955d36b9b419b8 developer.pidgin.im
- http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=56 pidgin.im
- http://secunia.com/advisories/46376 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:183 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1371.html www.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=743481 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18034 oval.cisecurity.org