date: 2011-08-20T00:00:00.000Z
summary: Remote crash in IRC protocol plugin
discoveredBy: Djego Ibanez, Lead QA at Gamistry
Certain characters in the nicknames of IRC users can trigger a null pointer
dereference in the IRC protocol plugin's handling of responses to WHO requests.
This can cause a crash on some operating systems. Clients based on libpurple
2.8.0 through 2.9.0 are affected.
Change libpurple to validate the data it receives from the server before