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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...

5.0 MediumFix available

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.

Exploit likelihood

3.79%Up 2.5 points since Feb 4, 2022
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 5.0

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.

Record
CVE-2012-6152
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

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.

Record
CVE-2012-6152
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2012-6008 No score

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.

Record
EUVD-2012-6008
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-87f8-23g9-6299 No score

The Yahoo! protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not properly validate UTF-8...

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.

Record
GHSA-87f8-23g9-6299
Weakness
CWE-20
Updated
2026-11-02
OSV No score

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.

Record
CVE-2012-6152
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2012-6152 No score

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.

Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2012-6152
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVMGASA-2014-0034 No score

Updated pidgin package fixes security vulnerabilities

Many places in the Yahoo! protocol plugin assumed incoming strings were UTF-8 and failed to transcode from non-UTF-8 encodings. This can lead to a crash when receiving strings that aren't UTF-8 (CVE-2012-6152).

A remote XMPP user can trigger a crash on some systems by sending a message with a timestamp in the distant future (CVE-2013-6477).

libX11 forcefully exits causing a crash when Pidgin tries to create an exceptionally wide tooltip window when hovering the pointer over a long URL (CVE-2013-6478).

A malicious server or man-in-the-middle could send a malformed HTTP response that could lead to a crash (CVE-2013-6479).

The Yahoo! protocol plugin failed to validate a length field before trying to read from a buffer, which could result in reading past the end of the buffer which could cause a crash when reading a P2P message (CVE-2013-6481).

NULL pointer dereferences in the MSN protocol plugin due to a malformed Content-Length header, or a malicious server or man-in-the-middle sending a specially crafted OIM data XML response or SOAP response (CVE-2013-6482).

The XMPP protocol plugin failed to ensure that iq replies came from the person they were sent to. A remote user could send a spoofed iq reply and attempt to guess the iq id. This could allow an attacker to inject fake data or trigger a null pointer dereference (CVE-2013-6483).

Incorrect error handling when reading the response from a STUN server could lead to a crash (CVE-2013-6484).

A malicious server or man-in-the-middle could cause a buffer overflow by sending a malformed HTTP response with chunked Transfer-Encoding with invalid chunk sizes (CVE-2013-6485).

A malicious server or man-in-the-middle could send a large value for Content-Length and cause an integer overflow which could lead to a buffer overflow in Gadu-Gadu HTTP parsing (CVE-2013-6487).

A specially crafted emoticon value could cause an integer overflow which could lead to a buffer overflow in MXit emoticon parsing (CVE-2013-6489).

A Content-Length of -1 could lead to a buffer overflow in SIMPLE header parsing (CVE-2013-6490).

A malicious server or man-in-the-middle could trigger a crash in IRC argument parsing in libpurple by sending a message with fewer than expected arguments (CVE-2014-0020).

Record
MGASA-2014-0034
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:10432-1 No score

finch-2.11.0-4.1 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the finch-2.11.0-4.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:10432-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
pidgin
Debian:12
before 2.10.8-1
2.10.8-1
pidgin
Debian:13
before 2.10.8-1
2.10.8-1
pidgin
Debian:14
before 2.10.8-1
2.10.8-1
pidgin
Mageia:3
before 2.10.9-1.mga3
2.10.9-1.mga3
finch
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client
before 0:2.6.6-32.el5
0:2.6.6-32.el5
libpurple
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client
before 0:2.6.6-32.el5
0:2.6.6-32.el5
libpurple-perl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client
before 0:2.6.6-32.el5
0:2.6.6-32.el5
libpurple-tcl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client
before 0:2.6.6-32.el5
0:2.6.6-32.el5
pidgin
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client
before 0:2.6.6-32.el5
0:2.6.6-32.el5
pidgin-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client
before 0:2.6.6-32.el5
0:2.6.6-32.el5
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
pidgin-perl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client
before 0:2.6.6-32.el5
0:2.6.6-32.el5
finch-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client_workstation
before 0:2.6.6-32.el5
0:2.6.6-32.el5
libpurple-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client_workstation
before 0:2.6.6-32.el5
0:2.6.6-32.el5
pidgin
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client_workstation
before 0:2.6.6-32.el5
0:2.6.6-32.el5
pidgin-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client_workstation
before 0:2.6.6-32.el5
0:2.6.6-32.el5
pidgin-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client_workstation
before 0:2.6.6-32.el5
0:2.6.6-32.el5
libpurple
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
pidgin
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
pidgin-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
finch
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
finch-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
libpurple-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
libpurple-perl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
libpurple-tcl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
pidgin-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
pidgin-docs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
pidgin-perl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::client
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
finch
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
finch-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
libpurple
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
libpurple-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
libpurple-perl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
libpurple-tcl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
pidgin
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
pidgin-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
pidgin-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
pidgin-docs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
pidgin-perl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::server
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
libpurple
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
pidgin
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
pidgin-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
finch
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
finch-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
libpurple-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
libpurple-perl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
libpurple-tcl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
pidgin-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
pidgin-docs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6
pidgin-perl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:6::workstation
before 0:2.7.9-27.el6
0:2.7.9-27.el6

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-2012-6152 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 5.0) in Pidgin, published February 5, 2014. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 3.79%, the 90th percentile. Fixed in pidgin 2.10.8-1.

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