CVE-2008-2956
EPSS 1.0%Published: 7/1/2008Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2008-2956
Description
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 packages (1)
- Debian/pidginfrom 0