CVE-2008-2927 Integer overflow in n/a
Medium 6.8
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2008-2927 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2008-2927 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Pidgin Pidgin, published on 7 Jul 2008. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-2927 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: Pidgin Pidgin. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.
Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-2927/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-2927/index.md)
Remote attackers can execute arbitrary code via malformed MSN protocol messages due to integer overflows in Pidgin and Adium clients.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2008-2927?
CVE-2008-2927 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Pidgin Pidgin, published on 7 Jul 2008. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Multiple integer overflows in the msn_slplink_process_msg functions in the MSN protocol handler in (1) libpurple/protocols/msn/slplink.c and (2) libpurple/protocols/msnp9/slplink.c in Pidgin before 2.4.3 and Adium before 1.3 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed SLP message with a crafted offset value, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-2955.
Weakness: CWE-189
Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-2927?
It affects 2 products.
Linux distribution packages (38)
pidgin Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::as | All versions | 0:1.5.1-2.el3 |
pidgin-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::as | All versions | 0:1.5.1-2.el3 |
pidgin Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::desktop | All versions | 0:1.5.1-2.el3 |
pidgin-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::desktop | All versions | 0:1.5.1-2.el3 |
pidgin Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::es | All versions | 0:1.5.1-2.el3 |
pidgin-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::es | All versions | 0:1.5.1-2.el3 |
pidgin Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::ws | All versions | 0:1.5.1-2.el3 |
pidgin-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::ws | All versions | 0:1.5.1-2.el3 |
pidgin Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as | All versions | 0:1.5.1-2.el4 |
pidgin-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as | All versions | 0:1.5.1-2.el4 |
pidgin Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop | All versions | 0:1.5.1-2.el4 |
pidgin-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop | All versions | 0:1.5.1-2.el4 |
pidgin Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es | All versions | 0:1.5.1-2.el4 |
pidgin-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es | All versions | 0:1.5.1-2.el4 |
pidgin Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws | All versions | 0:1.5.1-2.el4 |
pidgin-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws | All versions | 0:1.5.1-2.el4 |
finch Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client | All versions | 0:2.3.1-2.el5_2 |
libpurple Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client | All versions | 0:2.3.1-2.el5_2 |
libpurple-perl Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client | All versions | 0:2.3.1-2.el5_2 |
libpurple-tcl Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client | All versions | 0:2.3.1-2.el5_2 |
pidgin Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client | All versions | 0:2.3.1-2.el5_2 |
pidgin-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client | All versions | 0:2.3.1-2.el5_2 |
pidgin-perl Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client | All versions | 0:2.3.1-2.el5_2 |
finch-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client_workstation | All versions | 0:2.3.1-2.el5_2 |
libpurple-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client_workstation | All versions | 0:2.3.1-2.el5_2 |
pidgin Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client_workstation | All versions | 0:2.3.1-2.el5_2 |
pidgin-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client_workstation | All versions | 0:2.3.1-2.el5_2 |
pidgin-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client_workstation | All versions | 0:2.3.1-2.el5_2 |
finch Red Hat:rhel_productivity:5 | All versions | 0:2.3.1-2.el5_2 |
finch-devel Red Hat:rhel_productivity:5 | All versions | 0:2.3.1-2.el5_2 |
libpurple Red Hat:rhel_productivity:5 | All versions | 0:2.3.1-2.el5_2 |
libpurple-devel Red Hat:rhel_productivity:5 | All versions | 0:2.3.1-2.el5_2 |
libpurple-perl Red Hat:rhel_productivity:5 | All versions | 0:2.3.1-2.el5_2 |
libpurple-tcl Red Hat:rhel_productivity:5 | All versions | 0:2.3.1-2.el5_2 |
pidgin Red Hat:rhel_productivity:5 | All versions | 0:2.3.1-2.el5_2 |
pidgin-debuginfo Red Hat:rhel_productivity:5 | All versions | 0:2.3.1-2.el5_2 |
pidgin-devel Red Hat:rhel_productivity:5 | All versions | 0:2.3.1-2.el5_2 |
pidgin-perl Red Hat:rhel_productivity:5 | All versions | 0:2.3.1-2.el5_2 |
Products include Adium Adium, Pidgin Pidgin.
How do I fix CVE-2008-2927?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Is CVE-2008-2927 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-2927 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Pidgin Pidgin
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2008-2927, DSA-1610-1, GHSA-xgwj-qm2p-hcpc, RHSA-2008:0584.