CVE-2012-1178

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-03-15 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

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.

Affected products

Pidgin: through 2.10.1; 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.2.0 (+39)

References

http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/14884
http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/diff/60f8379d0a610538cf42e0dd9ab1436c8b9308cd/with/3053d6a37cc6d8774aba7607b992a4408216adcd/libpurple/protocols/msn/oim.c
http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/3053d6a37cc6d8774aba7607b992a4408216adcd
http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=61
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1102.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/50005
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:029
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52475
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18019
http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/14884
http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/diff/60f8379d0a610538cf42e0dd9ab1436c8b9308cd/with/3053d6a37cc6d8774aba7607b992a4408216adcd/libpurple/protocols/msn/oim.c
http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/3053d6a37cc6d8774aba7607b992a4408216adcd

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