Denial of Service Vulnerability in MSN Protocol Plugin in Pidgin

CVE-2012-1178 · MEDIUM Severity

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

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.

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