[Pidgin] #11863: Using "Get X-Status Msg" on offline ICQ buddy causes Pidgin's crash

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Mon May 17 08:46:18 EDT 2010


#11863: Using "Get X-Status Msg" on offline ICQ buddy causes Pidgin's crash
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 Reporter:  Fellrond                  |        Owner:  MarkDoliner
     Type:  defect                    |       Status:  new        
Milestone:  2.7.1                     |    Component:  ICQ        
  Version:  2.7.0                     |   Resolution:             
 Keywords:  x-status oscar icq 2.7.0  |  
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Comment(by nosnilmot):

 Replying to [comment:15 alcik]:
 > I thik, tah problem is in function ''oscar_normalize'' in file
 ''oscar.c''

 No, that's not the problem. The problem is generror() calls
 purple_parse_msgerr() with one too few arguments, so the buddy name is
 read from random memory and that is unlikely to be valid UTF-8, which is
 why it blows up later on in oscar_normalize.

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