Denial of Service Vulnerability in Yahoo! Protocol Plugin in Pidgin

CVE-2012-6152 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The Yahoo! protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not properly validate UTF-8 data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via crafted byte sequences.

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