Description
The g_markup_escape_text function in the SILC protocol plug-in in libpurple 2.10.0 and earlier, as used in Pidgin and possibly other products, 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.
Published: 2011-11-04
Score: 4.3 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2011-3553 The g_markup_escape_text function in the SILC protocol plug-in in libpurple 2.10.0 and earlier, as used in Pidgin and possibly other products, 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-1273-1 Pidgin vulnerabilities
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Pidgin Libpurple Pidgin
Redhat Enterprise Linux
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T23:37:48.393Z

Reserved: 2011-09-21T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2011-3594

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Status : Modified

Published: 2011-11-04T21:55:07.083

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2011-3594

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2011-09-29T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2011-3594 - Bugzilla

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