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CVE-2011-3594
Published: Nov 4, 2011
Modified: Aug 6, 2024
PUBLISHED
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18034
vdb-entry
signature
x_refsource_OVAL
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=743481
x_refsource_MISC
MDVSA-2011:183
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_MANDRIVA
46376
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/14636
x_refsource_CONFIRM
RHSA-2011:1371
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT
http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=56
x_refsource_CONFIRM
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