CVE-2008-2956

Impact

Memory leak in Pidgin 2.0.0, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via malformed XML documents. NOTE: this issue has been disputed by the upstream vendor, who states: "I was never able to identify a scenario under which a problem occurred and the original reporter wasn't able to supply any sort of reproduction details."

Affected products

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• http://crisp.cs.du.edu/?q=ca2007-1
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31387
• http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0246
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/06/27/3
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495165/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29985
• https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2647
• http://crisp.cs.du.edu/?q=ca2007-1
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31387
• http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0246
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/06/27/3
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495165/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29985
• https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2647