Denial of Service Vulnerability in Pidgin and Related Products
CVE-2011-3594

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor: Pidgin
Status: Libpurple; Pidgin
Vendor: CVE Published:; 4 November 2011

What is CVE-2011-3594?

A vulnerability exists in the g_markup_escape_text function within the SILC protocol plug-in of libpurple. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service by sending invalid UTF-8 sequences. These sequences can lead to the use of invalid pointers and result in out-of-bounds reads, potentially crashing the application. The issue is particularly related to its interaction with certain versions of glib2.

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