CVE-2012-1178

Summary

CVECVE-2012-1178
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2012-03-15 10:55:01 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: CWE-399 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Pidgin Pidgin 2.0.0 All All All
Application Pidgin Pidgin 2.0.1 All All All
Application Pidgin Pidgin 2.0.2 All All All
Application Pidgin Pidgin 2.1.0 All All All
Application Pidgin Pidgin 2.1.1 All All All
Application Pidgin Pidgin 2.10.0 All All All
Application Pidgin Pidgin 2.2.0 All All All
Application Pidgin Pidgin 2.2.1 All All All
Application Pidgin Pidgin 2.2.2 All All All
Application Pidgin Pidgin 2.3.0 All All All
Application Pidgin Pidgin 2.3.1 All All All
Application Pidgin Pidgin 2.4.0 All All All
Application Pidgin Pidgin 2.4.1 All All All
Application Pidgin Pidgin 2.4.2 All All All
Application Pidgin Pidgin 2.4.3 All All All
Application Pidgin Pidgin 2.5.0 All All All
Application Pidgin Pidgin 2.5.1 All All All
Application Pidgin Pidgin 2.5.2 All All All
Application Pidgin Pidgin 2.5.3 All All All
Application Pidgin Pidgin 2.5.4 All All All
Application Pidgin Pidgin 2.5.5 All All All
Application Pidgin Pidgin 2.5.6 All All All
Application Pidgin Pidgin 2.5.7 All All All
Application Pidgin Pidgin 2.5.8 All All All
Application Pidgin Pidgin 2.5.9 All All All
Application Pidgin Pidgin 2.6.0 All All All
Application Pidgin Pidgin 2.6.1 All All All
Application Pidgin Pidgin 2.6.2 All All All
Application Pidgin Pidgin 2.6.3 All All All
Application Pidgin Pidgin 2.6.4 All All All
Application Pidgin Pidgin 2.6.5 All All All
Application Pidgin Pidgin 2.6.6 All All All
Application Pidgin Pidgin 2.7.1 All All All
Application Pidgin Pidgin 2.7.10 All All All
Application Pidgin Pidgin 2.7.11 All All All
Application Pidgin Pidgin 2.7.2 All All All
Application Pidgin Pidgin 2.7.3 All All All
Application Pidgin Pidgin 2.7.4 All All All
Application Pidgin Pidgin 2.7.5 All All All
Application Pidgin Pidgin 2.7.6 All All All
Application Pidgin Pidgin 2.7.7 All All All
Application Pidgin Pidgin 2.7.8 All All All
Application Pidgin Pidgin 2.7.9 All All All
Application Pidgin Pidgin 2.8.0 All All All
Application Pidgin Pidgin 2.9.0 All All All
Application Pidgin Pidgin All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Pidgin 'msn_oim_report_to_user()' Denial of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Pidgin Security Advisories af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 pidgin.im Vendor Advisory
#14884 (msn_oim_report_to_user does not do charset verification/conversion) – Pidgin af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 developer.pidgin.im
pidgin/main: changeset 1b1b97b8e942 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 developer.pidgin.im
Red Hat Customer Portal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
404 Not Found af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 developer.pidgin.im
Security Advisory SA50005 - Red Hat update for pidgin - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
www.mandriva.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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