Buffer overflow in libpurple - CVE-2011-3594
Published: November 4, 2011 / Updated: August 11, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU44545
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: 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/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2011-3594
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: pidgin.im
Affected software:
libpurple
libpurple
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.
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.
How to mitigate CVE-2011-3594
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/14636
- http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/diff/be5e66abad2af29604bc794cc4c6600ab12751f3/with/7eb1f6d56cc58bbb5b56b7df53955d36b9b419b8
- http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=56
- http://secunia.com/advisories/46376
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:183
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1371.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=743481
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18034