CVE-2012-1178: Pidgin

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The msn_oim_report_to_user function in oim.c in the MSN protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.2 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an OIM message that lacks UTF-8 encoding.

Affected products

• Pidgin Pidgin: up to and including 2.10.1; 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 2012-03-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.