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** DISPUTED ** Memory leak in Pidgin 2.0.0, and possibly...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published May 1, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 10, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

** DISPUTED ** 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. NOTE: this issue has been disputed by the upstream vendor, who states: "I was never able to identify a scenario under which a problem occurred and the original reporter wasn't able to supply any sort of reproduction details."

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jul 1, 2008
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 1, 2022
Last updated Feb 10, 2023

Severity

Moderate

Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

CVE-2008-2956

GHSA ID

GHSA-f69j-274h-2m7w

Source code

No known source code

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