CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2009-3085

Published: Sep 08, 2009 | Modified: Sep 19, 2017
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
2.8 MODERATE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:M/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
LOW

The XMPP protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.6.2 does not properly handle an error IQ stanza during an attempted fetch of a custom smiley, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via XHTML-IM content with cid: images.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Libpurple Pidgin * *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 RedHat pidgin-0:2.6.2-2.el4 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RedHat pidgin-0:2.6.2-2.el5 *
Pidgin Ubuntu intrepid *
Pidgin Ubuntu jaunty *
Pidgin Ubuntu upstream *

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