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CVE-2012-6152
The Yahoo! protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not properly validate UTF-8 data, which allows remote attackers to…
Medium5.0EPSS 3.8%
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- Updated
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- Assigned by
- redhat
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 14 months later
· 14 months later
Published
- 11 years later
· 11 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 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.8% · top 9.9% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (6)
- openSUSE-SU-2014:0326 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- RHSA-2014:0139 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=70 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/b0345c25f886 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2014:0239 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- USN-2100-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_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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