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CVE-2011-3594

The g_markup_escape_text function in the SILC protocol plug-in in libpurple 2.10.0 and earlier, as used in Pidgin and po

The g_markup_escape_text function in the SILC protocol plug-in in libpurple 2.10.0 and earlier, as used in Pidgin and possibly other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via invalid UTF-8 sequences that trigger use of invalid pointers and an out-of-bounds read, related to interactions with certain versions of glib2.

MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3 EPSS 0.00959
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Affected Products & Versions

3
pidgin libpurpleall versions
pidginall versions

Public Exploits & PoCs

1
pocdeveloper.pidgin.im · 14636developer.pidgin.im

Scoring & Timeline

4.3
MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · secalert@redhat.com
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v2 Vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Published to NVD04 Nov 2011 · 09:55 PM

Vendor Advisories

4
suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:10432-1
rhsaRHSA-2011:1820Moderate
rhsaRHSA-2011:1371Moderate
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