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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2011-11-04T21:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T23:37:48.393Z

Reserved: 2011-09-21T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2011-3594

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2011-11-04T21:55:07.083

Modified: 2017-09-19T01:34:00.447

Link: CVE-2011-3594

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2011-09-29T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2011-3594 - Bugzilla