CVE-2008-2957

EPSS 1.7%

Published: 7/1/2008Modified: 4/28/2026

Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2008-2957

Description

The UPnP functionality in Pidgin 2.0.0, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to trigger the download of arbitrary files and cause a denial of service (memory or disk consumption) via a UDP packet that specifies an arbitrary URL.

Affected packages (1)

Debian/pidginfrom 0, < 2.4.3-4

References (1)

ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-2957