CVE-2008-2956 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-2956
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Description: Memory leak in Pidgin 2.0.0, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via malformed XML documents.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: SAID Secunia Advisory: SA31387 MLIST http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/06/27/3 MISC http://crisp.cs.du.edu/?q=ca2007-1 CONFIRM http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0246 BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/495165/100/0/threaded BID 29985

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