CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-2694
10.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-08-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
The msn_slplink_process_msg function in libpurple/protocols/msn/slplink.c in libpurple, as used in Pidgin (formerly Gaim) before 2.5.9 and Adium 1.3.5 and earlier, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) by sending multiple crafted SLP (aka MSNSLP) messages to trigger an overwrite of an arbitrary memory location. NOTE: this issue reportedly exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2009-1376.
Affected configurations
• adium adium (<= 1.3.5)
• adium adium 1.2.7
• adium adium 1.3
• adium adium 1.3.1
• adium adium 1.3.2
• adium adium 1.3.3
• adium adium 1.3.4
• pidgin pidgin (<= 2.5.8)
• pidgin pidgin 2.0.0
• pidgin pidgin 2.0.1
• pidgin pidgin 2.0.2
• pidgin pidgin 2.1.0
• pidgin pidgin 2.1.1
• pidgin pidgin 2.2.0
• pidgin pidgin 2.2.1
• pidgin pidgin 2.2.2
• pidgin pidgin 2.3.0
• pidgin pidgin 2.3.1
• pidgin pidgin 2.4.0
• pidgin pidgin 2.4.1
• pidgin pidgin 2.4.2
• pidgin pidgin 2.4.3
• pidgin pidgin 2.5.0
• pidgin pidgin 2.5.1
• pidgin pidgin 2.5.2
• pidgin pidgin 2.5.3
• pidgin pidgin 2.5.4
• pidgin pidgin 2.5.6
• pidgin pidgin 2.5.7
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)
- CWE-823 Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset weakness
References
- http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/6f7343166c673bf0496ecb1afec9b633c1d54a0e Patch
- http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog developer.pidgin.im
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36384 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36392 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36401 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36402 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36708 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37071 secunia.com
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-266908-1 sunsolve.sun.com
- http://www.coresecurity.com/content/libpurple-arbitrary-write Exploit
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1870 Patch
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9615 www.exploit-db.com
- http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=34 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2303 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2663 www.vupen.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514957 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10319 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6320 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1218.html Vendor Advisory
- http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/6f7343166c673bf0496ecb1afec9b633c1d54a0e Patch
- http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog developer.pidgin.im
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36384 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36392 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36401 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36402 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36708 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37071 secunia.com
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-266908-1 sunsolve.sun.com
- http://www.coresecurity.com/content/libpurple-arbitrary-write Exploit
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1870 Patch
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9615 www.exploit-db.com
- http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=34 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2303 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2663 www.vupen.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514957 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10319 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6320 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1218.html Vendor Advisory