CVE-2008-2955 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2008-2955?

CVE-2008-2955 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Pidgin Pidgin, published on 1 Jul 2008. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Pidgin 2.4.1 allows remote attackers 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.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-2955?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Pidgin Pidgin.

How do I fix CVE-2008-2955?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2008-2955 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2008-2955 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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• CVE-2013-6486 Command injection in n/a Critical 9.3
• CVE-2011-3185 Command injection in n/a Critical 9.3
• CVE-2009-1376 Integer overflow in n/a Critical 9.3

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2008-2955, GHSA-573h-wp83-cr6f.