PublicDateAtUSN: 2014-02-05
Candidate: CVE-2012-6152
PublicDate: 2014-02-06 16:10:00 UTC
References: 
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-6152
 http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=70
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2100-1
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.
Ubuntu-Description: 
Notes: 
Bugs: 
Priority: medium
Discovered-by: Thijs Alkemade and Robert Vehse
Assigned-to: mdeslaur
CVSS: 

Patches_pidgin:
 upstream: http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/b0345c25f886
upstream_pidgin: released (2.10.8)
lucid_pidgin: ignored (reached end-of-life)
precise_pidgin: released (1:2.10.3-0ubuntu1.4)
quantal_pidgin: released (1:2.10.6-0ubuntu2.3)
saucy_pidgin: released (1:2.10.7-0ubuntu4.1.13.10.1)
devel_pidgin: released (1:2.10.9-0ubuntu1)