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