VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2012-1178
CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability2.48%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2012-03-15
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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.