CVE-2008-2955 in IM

Summary

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.

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• Reservation: 07/01/2008
• Disclosure: 07/01/2008
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-3746 (1)
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-20 (Confirmed)
• Exploit: Download
• CVSS: 7.3
• EPSS: 0.17668
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-2955
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2955
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2008-2955/