CVE-2012-2318 Information

Description

msg.c in the MSN protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.4 does not properly handle crafted characters which allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by placing these characters in a text/plain message.

Reference

http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/4d6bcb4f4ea4 http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=63 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1102.html http://secunia.com/advisories/50005 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:082 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53400 https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15136503 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A17448