Denial of Service Vulnerability in Pidgin's Oscar Protocol Plugin

CVE-2011-4601 · MEDIUM Severity

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

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.

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