CVE-2011-4603 Information

Description

The silc_channel_message function in ops.c in the SILC protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.1 does not perform the expected UTF-8 validation on message data which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted message a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-3594.

Reference

http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/diff/c7b95cc3be0590b52edc02d4750ae62844c1acb6/with/afb9ede3de989f217f03d5670cca00e628bd11f1/libpurple/protocols/silc/ops.c http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/afb9ede3de989f217f03d5670cca00e628bd11f1 http://secunia.com/advisories/47234 http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=59 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1820.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51074 https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/13195955 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A18303