DEBIAN-CVE-2012-1178

DEBIAN-CVE-2012-1178 PUBLISHED CVSS 8.699999809265137 HIGH

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.

Risk Scores

CVSS v4.0

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

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Debian:14	pidgin	0, 0, 0
Debian:12	pidgin	0, 0, 0
Debian:13	pidgin	0, 0, 0
Debian:11	pidgin	0, 0, 0

Timeline

Mar 15, 2012 CVE Published
Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-1178 advisory

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