Published: 01/07/2008 Updated: 11/10/2018

CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6

VMScore: 435

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Pidgin 2.4.1 allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long filename that contains certain characters, as demonstrated using an MSN message that triggers the crash in the msn_slplink_process_msg function.

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Synopsis Moderate: pidgin security and bug fix update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic Updated Pidgin packages that fix several security issues and bugs are nowavailable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the RedHat Security R ...

It was discovered that Pidgin did not properly handle certain topic messages in the IRC protocol handler If a user were tricked into connecting to a malicious IRC server, an attacker could cause Pidgin to crash, leading to a denial of service This issue only affected Ubuntu 804 LTS, Ubuntu 810 and Ubuntu 904 (CVE-2009-2703) ...

It was discovered that Pidgin did not properly handle certain malformed messages in the MSN protocol handler A remote attacker could send a specially crafted message and possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges (CVE-2008-2927) ...

source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/33414/info Pidgin is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input Successful exploits will cause the affected application to crash, effectively denying service to legitimate users Pidgin 241 is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected NO ...

CWE-20 http://secunia.com/advisories/30881 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:025 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3966 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1023.html http://secunia.com/advisories/33102 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-493.htm http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29985 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1947 http://secunia.com/advisories/32859 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-675-1 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18050 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10131 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493682/100/0/threaded https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:1023 https://nvd.nist.gov https://usn.ubuntu.com/886-1/https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/32749/

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