Denial of Service Vulnerability in Pidgin MSN Protocol Plugin

CVE-2012-2318 · MEDIUM Severity

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

msg.c in the MSN protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.4 does not properly handle crafted characters, which allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by placing these characters in a text/plain message.

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