Bug 453736 (CVE-2008-2955) - CVE-2008-2955 pidgin: remote DoS via MSN message with crafted file name
Summary: CVE-2008-2955 pidgin: remote DoS via MSN message with crafted file name
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2008-2955
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
QA Contact:
URL: http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=C...
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Depends On: 472585 472586 472587 472588 833957
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-07-02 09:20 UTC by Tomas Hoger
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:25 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-06-20 15:28:10 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2008:1023 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: pidgin security and bug fix update 2008-12-15 13:14:14 UTC

Description Tomas Hoger 2008-07-02 09:20:09 UTC 
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2008-2955 to the following vulnerability:

Pidgin 2.4.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service
(crash) via a long filename that contains certain characters, as
demonstrated using an MSN message that triggers the crash in the
msn_slplink_process_msg function.

References:
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/493682/100/0/threaded
http://secunia.com/advisories/30881
http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2008/1947
Comment 1 Robert Buchholz 2008-07-30 18:38:43 UTC 
upstream bug:
http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/6246
Comment 2 Tomas Hoger 2008-08-27 19:51:42 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
  http://www.pidgin.im/news/security/?id=26

Fixed upstream in: 2.4.3
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