Veracode Vulnerability DatabaseVERACODE:23507Denial Of Service (DoS)
0.059 Low
EPSS
Percentile
93.4%
pidgin is vulnerable to denial of service. A denial-of-service flaw was found in Pidgin’s MSN protocol handler. If a remote user was able to send, and the Pidgin user accepted, a carefully-crafted file request, it could result in Pidgin crashing.
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