CVE-2011-3594
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
- 3.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 88% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-119
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- pidgin:libpurple
- pidgin:pidgin
References
- http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/14636
- http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/diff/be5e66abad2af29604bc794cc4c6600ab12751f3/with/7eb1f6d56cc58bbb5b56b7df53955d36b9b419b8
- http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=56
- http://secunia.com/advisories/46376
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:183