CVE-2009-1889 Denial of service in n/a
Medium 5.0
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2009-1889 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2009-1889 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Pidgin Pidgin, published on 1 Jul 2009. 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-2009-1889 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-2009-1889/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2009-1889/index.md)
Remote attackers can crash Pidgin by sending crafted ICQ web messages that trigger excessive memory allocation, requiring an upgrade to fix.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2009-1889?
CVE-2009-1889 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Pidgin Pidgin, published on 1 Jul 2009. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The OSCAR protocol implementation in Pidgin before 2.5.8 misinterprets the ICQWebMessage message type as the ICQSMS message type, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted ICQ web message that triggers allocation of a large amount of memory.
Weakness: CWE-399
Which versions are affected by CVE-2009-1889?
It affects 1 product.
Linux distribution packages (40)
finch Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as | All versions | 0:2.5.8-1.el4 |
finch-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as | All versions | 0:2.5.8-1.el4 |
libpurple Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as | All versions | 0:2.5.8-1.el4 |
libpurple-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as | All versions | 0:2.5.8-1.el4 |
libpurple-perl Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as | All versions | 0:2.5.8-1.el4 |
libpurple-tcl Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as | All versions | 0:2.5.8-1.el4 |
pidgin Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as | All versions | 0:2.5.8-1.el4 |
pidgin-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as | All versions | 0:2.5.8-1.el4 |
pidgin-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as | All versions | 0:2.5.8-1.el4 |
pidgin-perl Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as | All versions | 0:2.5.8-1.el4 |
finch Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop | All versions | 0:2.5.8-1.el4 |
finch-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop | All versions | 0:2.5.8-1.el4 |
libpurple Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop | All versions | 0:2.5.8-1.el4 |
libpurple-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop | All versions | 0:2.5.8-1.el4 |
libpurple-perl Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop | All versions | 0:2.5.8-1.el4 |
libpurple-tcl Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop | All versions | 0:2.5.8-1.el4 |
pidgin Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop | All versions | 0:2.5.8-1.el4 |
pidgin-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop | All versions | 0:2.5.8-1.el4 |
pidgin-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop | All versions | 0:2.5.8-1.el4 |
pidgin-perl Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop | All versions | 0:2.5.8-1.el4 |
finch Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es | All versions | 0:2.5.8-1.el4 |
finch-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es | All versions | 0:2.5.8-1.el4 |
libpurple Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es | All versions | 0:2.5.8-1.el4 |
libpurple-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es | All versions | 0:2.5.8-1.el4 |
libpurple-perl Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es | All versions | 0:2.5.8-1.el4 |
libpurple-tcl Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es | All versions | 0:2.5.8-1.el4 |
pidgin Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es | All versions | 0:2.5.8-1.el4 |
pidgin-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es | All versions | 0:2.5.8-1.el4 |
pidgin-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es | All versions | 0:2.5.8-1.el4 |
pidgin-perl Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es | All versions | 0:2.5.8-1.el4 |
finch Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws | All versions | 0:2.5.8-1.el4 |
finch-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws | All versions | 0:2.5.8-1.el4 |
libpurple Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws | All versions | 0:2.5.8-1.el4 |
libpurple-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws | All versions | 0:2.5.8-1.el4 |
libpurple-perl Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws | All versions | 0:2.5.8-1.el4 |
libpurple-tcl Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws | All versions | 0:2.5.8-1.el4 |
pidgin Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws | All versions | 0:2.5.8-1.el4 |
pidgin-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws | All versions | 0:2.5.8-1.el4 |
pidgin-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws | All versions | 0:2.5.8-1.el4 |
pidgin-perl Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws | All versions | 0:2.5.8-1.el4 |
Products include Pidgin Pidgin.
How do I fix CVE-2009-1889?
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-2009-1889 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2009-1889 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Pidgin Pidgin
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2009-1889, GHSA-2pp9-7rv9-4rpg, RHSA-2009:1139.