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Secunia Advisory SA35652

Pidgin ICQ Web Message Denial of Service Weakness
Secunia Advisory SA35652
Secunia VIM 4.0 - Free Trial
Release Date 2009-07-01
   
Popularity 3,725 views
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Criticality level Not criticalNot critical
Impact DoS
Where From remote
Authentication level This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
   
Report reliability This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Approve distribution This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Remediation status Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
Automated scanning Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
   
Software:
Pidgin 2.x
Secunia CVSS Score This information is available to Secunia VIM Customers
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2009-1889 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
  

Description

A weakness has been reported in Pidgin, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The weakness is caused due to the application misinterpreting an ICQ web message as an ICQ SMS message. This can be exploited to trigger an out-of-memory condition and terminate the application via a specially crafted ICQ web message.


Solution
Update to version 2.5.8.

Provided and/or discovered by
Yuriy Kaminskiy

Original Advisory
http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/9483
http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/9bac0a540156fb1848eedd61c8630737dee752c7

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