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GHSA-F69J-274H-2M7W

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-01 23:55 – Updated: 2022-05-01 23:55

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** DISPUTED ** 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."

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CVE-2008-2956 (GCVE-0-2008-2956)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-07-01 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 09:21 Disputed

Summary

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."

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

redhat CNA under the redhat root

CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 1111 records in the last 180 days details

References

7 references

URL	Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29985	vdb-entry
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/06/27/3	mailing-list
http://secunia.com/advisories/31387	third-party-advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495165/100…	mailing-list
http://crisp.cs.du.edu/?q=ca2007-1
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0246
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2647

Date Public

2008-07-01 00:00

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