VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2012-6152

CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability3.79%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2014-02-06
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-20: Improper Input Validation

Primary references