CVE-2011-3594
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…
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 44 days later
· 44 days later
Published
- 13 years later
· 13 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.2% · top 12% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (8)
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18034 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/diff/be5e66abad2af29604bc794cc4c6600ab12751f3/with/7eb1f6d56cc58bbb5b56b7df53955d36b9b419b8 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=743481 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- MDVSA-2011:183 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- 46376 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/14636 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2011:1371 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=56 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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