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Cent OS: CVE-2012-1178: CESA-2012:1102 (pidgin)

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Cent OS: CVE-2012-1178: CESA-2012:1102 (pidgin)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/15/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/01/2016
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • centos-upgrade-finch
  • centos-upgrade-finch-devel
  • centos-upgrade-libpurple
  • centos-upgrade-libpurple-devel
  • centos-upgrade-libpurple-perl
  • centos-upgrade-libpurple-tcl
  • centos-upgrade-pidgin
  • centos-upgrade-pidgin-devel
  • centos-upgrade-pidgin-docs
  • centos-upgrade-pidgin-perl

References

  • CVE-2012-1178
  • RHSA-2012:1102
  • USN-1500-1

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