SB2012041906 - Resource management error in pidgin (Alpine package)
Published: April 19, 2012
Security Bulletin ID
SB2012041906
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2012-1178)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.
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.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.