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CVE-2012-2318

msg.c in the MSN protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.4 does not properly handle...

5.0 MediumFix available

msg.c in the MSN protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.4 does not properly handle crafted characters, which allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by placing these characters in a text/plain message.

Exploit likelihood

1.71%Up 0.5 points since Feb 4, 2022
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 5.0

msg.c in the MSN protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.4 does not properly handle crafted characters, which allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by placing these characters in a text/plain message.

Record
CVE-2012-2318
CVSS 2.0
5.0 MediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness
CWE-20
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

msg.c in the MSN protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.4 does not properly handle crafted characters, which allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by placing these characters in a text/plain message.

Record
CVE-2012-2318
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2012-2311 No score

msg.c in the MSN protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.4 does not properly handle crafted characters, which allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by placing these characters in a text/plain message.

Record
EUVD-2012-2311
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-5cxv-7whw-jpv5 No score

msg.c in the MSN protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.4 does not properly handle...

msg.c in the MSN protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.4 does not properly handle crafted characters, which allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by placing these characters in a text/plain message.

Record
GHSA-5cxv-7whw-jpv5
Weakness
CWE-20
Updated
2026-11-02
OSV No score

msg.c in the MSN protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.4 does not properly handle crafted characters, which allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by placing these characters in a text/plain message.

Record
CVE-2012-2318
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2012-2318 No score

msg.c in the MSN protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.4 does not properly handle crafted characters, which allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by placing these characters in a text/plain message.

Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2012-2318
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
pidgin
Debian:12
 before 2.10.4-1
2.10.4-1
pidgin
Debian:13
 before 2.10.4-1
2.10.4-1
pidgin
Debian:14
 before 2.10.4-1
2.10.4-1
finch
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client
 before 0:2.6.6-11.el5.4
0:2.6.6-11.el5.4
libpurple
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client
 before 0:2.6.6-11.el5.4
0:2.6.6-11.el5.4
libpurple-perl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client
 before 0:2.6.6-11.el5.4
0:2.6.6-11.el5.4
libpurple-tcl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client
 before 0:2.6.6-11.el5.4
0:2.6.6-11.el5.4
pidgin
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client
 before 0:2.6.6-11.el5.4
0:2.6.6-11.el5.4
pidgin-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client
 before 0:2.6.6-11.el5.4
0:2.6.6-11.el5.4
pidgin-perl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client
 before 0:2.6.6-11.el5.4
0:2.6.6-11.el5.4
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
finch-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client_workstation
 before 0:2.6.6-11.el5.4
0:2.6.6-11.el5.4
libpurple-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client_workstation
 before 0:2.6.6-11.el5.4
0:2.6.6-11.el5.4
pidgin
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client_workstation
 before 0:2.6.6-11.el5.4
0:2.6.6-11.el5.4
pidgin-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client_workstation
 before 0:2.6.6-11.el5.4
0:2.6.6-11.el5.4
pidgin-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client_workstation
 before 0:2.6.6-11.el5.4
0:2.6.6-11.el5.4
finch
Red Hat:rhel_productivity:5
 before 0:2.6.6-11.el5.4
0:2.6.6-11.el5.4
finch-devel
Red Hat:rhel_productivity:5
 before 0:2.6.6-11.el5.4
0:2.6.6-11.el5.4
libpurple
Red Hat:rhel_productivity:5
 before 0:2.6.6-11.el5.4
0:2.6.6-11.el5.4
libpurple-devel
Red Hat:rhel_productivity:5
 before 0:2.6.6-11.el5.4
0:2.6.6-11.el5.4
libpurple-perl
Red Hat:rhel_productivity:5
 before 0:2.6.6-11.el5.4
0:2.6.6-11.el5.4
libpurple-tcl
Red Hat:rhel_productivity:5
 before 0:2.6.6-11.el5.4
0:2.6.6-11.el5.4
pidgin
Red Hat:rhel_productivity:5
 before 0:2.6.6-11.el5.4
0:2.6.6-11.el5.4
pidgin-debuginfo
Red Hat:rhel_productivity:5
 before 0:2.6.6-11.el5.4
0:2.6.6-11.el5.4
pidgin-devel
Red Hat:rhel_productivity:5
 before 0:2.6.6-11.el5.4
0:2.6.6-11.el5.4
pidgin-perl
Red Hat:rhel_productivity:5
 before 0:2.6.6-11.el5.4
0:2.6.6-11.el5.4
libpurple
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
 before 0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
pidgin
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
 before 0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
pidgin-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
 before 0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
finch
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
 before 0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
finch-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
 before 0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
libpurple-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
 before 0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
libpurple-perl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
 before 0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
libpurple-tcl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
 before 0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
pidgin-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
 before 0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
pidgin-docs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
 before 0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
pidgin-perl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
 before 0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
finch
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
 before 0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
finch-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
 before 0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
libpurple
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
 before 0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
libpurple-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
 before 0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
libpurple-perl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
 before 0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
libpurple-tcl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
 before 0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
pidgin
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
 before 0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
pidgin-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
 before 0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
pidgin-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
 before 0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
pidgin-docs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
 before 0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
pidgin-perl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
 before 0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
libpurple
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
 before 0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
pidgin
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
 before 0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
pidgin-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
 before 0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
finch
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
 before 0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
finch-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
 before 0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
libpurple-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
 before 0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
libpurple-perl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
 before 0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
libpurple-tcl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
 before 0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
pidgin-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
 before 0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
pidgin-docs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
 before 0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
pidgin-perl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
 before 0:2.7.9-5.el6.2
0:2.7.9-5.el6.2

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
aliasesEUVD
first indexedCVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2012-2318 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 5.0) in Pidgin, published July 3, 2012. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 1.71%, the 77th percentile. Fixed in pidgin 2.10.4-1.

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