CVE-2012-3374: Pidgin

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 6.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in markup.c in the MXit protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted inline image in a message.

Affected products

• Pidgin Pidgin: up to and including 2.10.4; 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 2012-07-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.