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
0.229 Low
EPSS
Percentile
96.5%
Three denial of service vulnerabilities where found in
pidgin and allow remote attackers to crash the application.
The developers summarized these problems as follows:
Pidgin can become unresponsive when displaying large
numbers of smileys
Certain nicknames in group chat rooms can trigger a
crash in Finch
Failure to validate all fields of an incoming message
can trigger a crash