CVE-2011-4922: Pidgin

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

cipher.c in the Cipher API in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.7.10 retains encryption-key data in process memory, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by reading a core file or other representation of memory contents.

Affected products

• Pidgin Pidgin: up to and including 2.7.9; version 2.0.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.0.2 only; version 2.1.0 only; version 2.1.1 only; …

Published 2012-08-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.