Bug 453739 (CVE-2008-2956)

Summary:	CVE-2008-2956 pidgin: memory leak in XML parser
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Tomas Hoger <thoger>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	eblanton, kreilly, lschiere+bugs, mark, redhat-bugzilla, stu, vdanen, wtogami
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OS:	Linux
URL:	http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-2956
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Description Tomas Hoger 2008-07-02 09:34:30 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2008-2956 to the following vulnerability:

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.

Proposed patch in CRISP Advisory 2007-01:
http://crisp.cs.du.edu/crisp-files/pidgin-2.0.0-xmlnode-pool-leak.diff

References:
http://crisp.cs.du.edu/?q=ca2007-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29985
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/06/27/3

Comment 2 Vincent Danen 2010-12-23 21:27:00 UTC

Upstream disputes this as being a flaw:

http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/11470

Accordingly, it has not been fixed upstream.