CVE-2012-6152

pidgin: DoS when decoding non-UTF-8 strings in Yahoo protocol plugin

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

4.3

CVSS 2.0

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Published · January 28, 2014

Updated · November 21, 2025

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.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE-172 · Encoding Error