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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 product

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Summary

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.

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Affected versions

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References 8

oval.cisecurity.org

developer.pidgin.im

bugzilla.redhat.com

mandriva.com

secunia.com

redhat.com

pidgin.im