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CVE-2011-3594

CVE-2011-3594 PUBLISHED CVSS 8.699999809265137 HIGH

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.

EPSS 0.96% · 76.8th percentile

Risk Scores

CVSS 4.0
8.699999809265137
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS Score
0.96%
76.8th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
n/an/an/a
pidginlibpurple0, 1.0, 2.0.0
pidginpidgin

Timeline

  • Nov 4, 2011 CVE Published
  • Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Mar 29, 2022 EPSS Score
  • May 17, 2022 CVE Updated
  • May 20, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Sep 4, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Oct 26, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Dec 18, 2022 EPSS Score
  • Feb 9, 2023 EPSS Score
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