Out-of-Bounds Affecting libpurple-tcl package, versions <0:2.6.6-5.el5_7.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.19% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-LIBPURPLETCL-9848623
  • published28 Apr 2025
  • disclosed29 Sept 2011

Introduced: 29 Sep 2011

CVE-2011-3594  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:10 libpurple-tcl to version 0:2.6.6-5.el5_7.1 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2011:1371.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libpurple-tcl package and not the libpurple-tcl package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

The g_markup_escape_text function in the SILC protocol plug-in in libpurple 2.10.0 and earlier, as used in Pidgin and possibly other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via invalid UTF-8 sequences that trigger use of invalid pointers and an out-of-bounds read, related to interactions with certain versions of glib2.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1