| Summary | AIM and ICQ remote crash |
|---|---|
| Date | 2011-10-20 |
| CVE Number | CVE-2011-4601 |
| Discovered By | Evgeny Boger |
| Fixed In Release | 2.10.1 |
When receiving various messages related to requesting or receiving authorization for adding a buddy to a buddy list, the oscar protocol plugin failed to validate that a piece of text was UTF-8. In some cases invalid UTF-8 data would lead to a crash.
Validate incoming strings as UTF-8 before using them as such.