Security Advisory

CVE-2011-4601

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2011-12-25 01:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 00:09:19
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.