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libpurple -- Remote DoS via an MSN OIM message that lacks UTF-8 encoding

Description:

US-CERT reports:

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.

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portaudit: libpurple -- Remote DoS via an MSN OIM message that lacks UTF-8 encoding

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Oliver Eikemeier <eik@FreeBSD.org>