CVE-2012-2318

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-07-03 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

msg.c in the MSN protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.4 does not properly handle crafted characters, which allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by placing these characters in a text/plain message.

Affected products

Pidgin: through 2.10.3; 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.2.0 (+41)

References

http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/4d6bcb4f4ea4
http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=63
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1102.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/50005
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:082
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53400
https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15136503
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17448
http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/4d6bcb4f4ea4
http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=63
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1102.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/50005

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