date: 2011-03-10T00:00:00.000Z
summary: Remote denial of service in Yahoo protocol plugin
discoveredBy: Marius Wachtler
The Yahoo protocol plugin in libpurple versions 2.6.0 through 2.7.10 do not
properly handle malformed YMSG packets, leading to NULL pointer dereferences and
Properly handle malformed packets by ignoring the packet or the missing field.