CVE-2012-6152 Information

Description

The Yahoo! protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not properly validate UTF-8 data which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via crafted byte sequences.

Reference

http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/b0345c25f886 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-02/msg00039.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-03/msg00005.html http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=70 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2100-1 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0139.html