Denial of service vulnerability in Pidgin via an OIM message that lacks UTF-8 encoding (Mac OS X)| ID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:4901 | Date: (C)2012-03-29 (M)2023-12-02 |
| Class: VULNERABILITY | Family: macos |
The host is installed with Pidgin before 2.10.2 and is prone to denial of service vulnerability. A flaw is present in the application, which fails to handle msn_oim_report_to_user function in oim.c in the MSN protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin. Successful exploitation could allow remote servers to cause a denial of service or application crash.
| Platform: |
| Apple Mac OS 14 |
| Apple Mac OS 13 |
| Apple Mac OS 12 |
| Apple Mac OS 11 |
| Apple Mac OS X 10.15 |
| Apple Mac OS X 10.14 |
| Apple Mac OS X 10.12 |
| Apple Mac OS X 10.13 |
| Apple Mac OS X 10.8 |
| Apple Mac OS X 10.9 |
| Apple Mac OS X 10.10 |
| Apple Mac OS X Server 10.8 |
| Apple Mac OS X Server 10.9 |
| Apple Mac OS X Server 10.10 |
