Resource management error in Pidgin - CVE-2012-1178
Published: March 15, 2012 / Updated: July 28, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU32806
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2012-1178
CWE-ID: CWE-399
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.
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.
Affected software
Pidgin
pidgin (Alpine package)
pidgin (Alpine package)
How to mitigate CVE-2012-1178
Install update from vendor's website.
Pidgin - update to 2.10.2
pidgin (Alpine package) - addressed in versions 2.10.2-r0, 2.10.4-r0
pidgin (Alpine package) - addressed in versions 2.10.2-r0, 2.10.4-r0
External References
- http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/14884
- http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/diff/60f8379d0a610538cf42e0dd9ab1436c8b9308cd/with/3053d6a37cc6d8774aba7607b992a4408216adcd/libpurple/protocols/msn/oim.c
- http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/3053d6a37cc6d8774aba7607b992a4408216adcd
- http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=61
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1102.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50005
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:029
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52475
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18019