PT-2012-3108 · Pidgin+3 · Pidgin+3

Published 2012-03-15 · Updated 2018-01-18 · CVE-2012-1178

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Pidgin versions prior to 2.10.2

Description The issue allows remote servers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an application crash, by sending an OIM message that lacks UTF-8 encoding. This is due to a problem in the msn oim report to user function in the MSN protocol plugin.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.10.2, update to version 2.10.2 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the handling of OIM messages from untrusted sources until the update is applied.

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CESA-2012_1102

CVE-2012-1178

RHSA-2012:1102

RHSA-2012_1102

Affected Products

Centos

Pidgin

Red Hat

Suse

References · 29

• http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=61 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-04506 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-1178 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-2318 · Security Note
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1102.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-3374 · Security Note
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:029 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-1178 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-1178 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-04505 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-1178 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-1178 · Security Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18019 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-1178 · Note
• http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/ded93865ef42 · Note