PT-2008-4391 · Pidgin+1 · Pidgin+1

Josh Bressers · Published 2008-07-01 · Updated 2024-08-07 · CVE-2008-2956

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Pidgin versions 2.0.0 and possibly other versions

Description A memory leak in Pidgin allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via malformed XML documents. The issue has been disputed by the upstream vendor due to a lack of reproduction details.

Recommendations For version 2.0.0 and possibly other versions, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-2956

Affected Products

Debian

Pidgin

References · 15

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2956 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/pidgin · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-2956 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-2956 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2956 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-2956 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31387 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/495165/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/06/27/3 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/29985 · Note
• http://crisp.cs.du.edu/?q=ca2007-1 · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/89598 · Telegram Post
• http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0246 · Note
• https://packages.debian.org/src:pidgin · Note
• https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2647 · Note