CVE-2012-2318: Pidgin

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

msg.c in the MSN protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.4 does not properly handle crafted characters, which allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by placing these characters in a text/plain message.

Affected products

• Pidgin Pidgin: up to and including 2.10.3; 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 2012-07-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.