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HistoryJul 01, 2008 - 12:00 a.m.

CVE-2008-2955

2008-07-0100:00:00
ubuntu.com
ubuntu.com
10

4.3 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

0.059 Low

EPSS

Percentile

93.4%

Pidgin 2.4.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash)
via a long filename that contains certain characters, as demonstrated using
an MSN message that triggers the crash in the msn_slplink_process_msg
function.

Notes

Author Note
mdeslaur Code in Dapper doesn’t look vulnerable
OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu7.10noarchpidgin< 1:2.2.1-1ubuntu4.3UNKNOWN
ubuntu8.04noarchpidgin< 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2.2UNKNOWN

4.3 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

0.059 Low

EPSS

Percentile

93.4%