pidgin: denial of service
| Package(s): | pidgin | CVE #(s): | CVE-2011-4601 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Created: | December 12, 2011 | Updated: | January 9, 2012 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description: | From the Mandriva advisory:
When receiving various messages related to requesting or receiving authorization for adding a buddy to a buddy list, the oscar protocol plugin failed to validate that a piece of text was UTF-8. In some cases invalid UTF-8 data would lead to a crash. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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