CVE-2012-6152: Pidgin

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 3.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Yahoo! protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.10.8 does not properly validate UTF-8 data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via crafted byte sequences.

Affected products

• Pidgin Pidgin: up to and including 2.10.7; 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 2014-02-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.