CVE-2009-1889
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Jul 1, 2009
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Jun 2, 2009
Description
The OSCAR protocol implementation in Pidgin before 2.5.8 misinterprets the ICQWebMessage message type as the ICQSMS message type, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted ICQ web message that triggers allocation of a large amount of memory.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- [devel] 20090528 [patch] libpurple/protocols/oscar: OOM and die on misparsed ICQWebMessage as ICQSMSmailing-list
- 35530vdb-entry
- RHSA-2009:1139vendor-advisory
- 35697third-party-advisory
- FEDORA-2009-7359vendor-advisory
- http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/9483
- 37071third-party-advisory
- USN-796-1vendor-advisory
- 35706third-party-advisory
- pidgin-oscar-dos(51448)vdb-entry
- 35693third-party-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=508738
- FEDORA-2009-7370vendor-advisory
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10004vdb-entrysignature
- ADV-2009-1749vdb-entry
- FEDORA-2009-7415vendor-advisory
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