PT-2011-4543 · Pidgin+2 · Libpurple+2

Vincent Danen · Published 2011-10-14 · Updated 2017-09-19 · CVE-2011-3594

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions libpurple versions 2.10.0 and earlier

Description The issue 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.

Recommendations For libpurple versions 2.10.0 and earlier, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2011-3594

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10432-1

RHSA-2011:1371

RHSA-2011_1371

Affected Products

Red Hat

Glib2

Libpurple

References · 15

• 🔥 http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/14636 · Exploit
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1371.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-3594 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2011-3594 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2011-3594 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/46376 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:183 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-3594 · Vendor Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-3594 · Note
• http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/diff/be5e66abad2af29604bc794cc4c6600ab12751f3/with/7eb1f6d56cc58bbb5b56b7df53955d36b9b419b8 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-1091 · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18034 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011:1371 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=743481 · Note
• http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=56 · Note