CVE-2011-3594 in libpurpleinfo

Summary

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.

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Reservation

09/21/2011

Disclosure

11/04/2011

CPE

ready

CVSS

5.3

EPSS

0.00959

Activities

Very Low

Sources

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