Denial of Service Vulnerability in libpurple's g_markup_escape_text Function

CVE-2011-3594 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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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