CVE-2012-6152

Publication date 5 February 2014

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

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.

Status

No maintained releases are affected by this CVE.

Package Ubuntu Release Status
pidgin 13.10 saucy
Fixed 1:2.10.7-0ubuntu4.1.13.10.1
12.10 quantal
Fixed 1:2.10.6-0ubuntu2.3
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 1:2.10.3-0ubuntu1.4
10.04 LTS lucid Ignored end of life

Patch details

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Package Patch details
pidgin

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-2100-1
    • Pidgin vulnerabilities
    • 6 February 2014

Other references