CVE-2012-6152
EPSS 1.1%
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.
How to fix CVE-2012-6152
To remediate CVE-2012-6152, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/pidgin—upgrade to 2.10.8-1 or later
Is CVE-2012-6152 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 1.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 2.10.8-1