CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-2956
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-07-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
Memory leak in Pidgin 2.0.0, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via malformed XML documents. NOTE: this issue has been disputed by the upstream vendor, who states: "I was never able to identify a scenario under which a problem occurred and the original reporter wasn't able to supply any sort of reproduction details."
Affected configurations
• pidgin pidgin 2.0.0
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://crisp.cs.du.edu/?q=ca2007-1 crisp.cs.du.edu
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31387 secunia.com
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0246 wiki.rpath.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/06/27/3 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495165/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29985 www.securityfocus.com
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2647 issues.rpath.com
- http://crisp.cs.du.edu/?q=ca2007-1 crisp.cs.du.edu
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31387 secunia.com
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0246 wiki.rpath.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/06/27/3 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495165/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29985 www.securityfocus.com
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2647 issues.rpath.com