CVEvulnerability

CVE-2011-4601

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2011-12-25 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2011-12-25
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

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.

Affected configurations

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

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References