Pidgin XMPP And SILC Protocols Denial of Service Vulnerabilities (Windows)

This host is installed with Pidgin and is prone to denial of service vulnerabilities. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: secpodpidginxmppandsilcprotocoldosvulnwin.nasl 7019 2017-08-29 11:51:27Z teissa $ Pidgin XMPP And SILC Protocols Denial of Service Vulnerabilities Windows Authors: Rachana Shetty...

DEBIAN-CVE-2011-4603

The silcchannelmessage function in ops.c in the SILC protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.1 does not perform the expected UTF-8 validation on message data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via a crafted message, a different vulnerability...

CVE-2011-4603

The silcchannelmessage function in ops.c in the SILC protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.1 does not perform the expected UTF-8 validation on message data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via a crafted message, a different vulnerability...

DEBIAN-CVE-2011-3594

The gmarkupescapetext 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, relate...