5 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
0.05 Low
EPSS
Percentile
92.8%
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.
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Debian | 12 | all | pidgin | <Β 2.5.8-1 | pidgin_2.5.8-1_all.deb |
Debian | 11 | all | pidgin | <Β 2.5.8-1 | pidgin_2.5.8-1_all.deb |
Debian | 10 | all | pidgin | <Β 2.5.8-1 | pidgin_2.5.8-1_all.deb |
Debian | 999 | all | pidgin | <Β 2.5.8-1 | pidgin_2.5.8-1_all.deb |
Debian | 13 | all | pidgin | <Β 2.5.8-1 | pidgin_2.5.8-1_all.deb |