Vulnerability in Pidgin

CVE-2012-1178

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.

EPSS: 0.025 (82.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Pidgin — versions 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References