Bug 453739 (CVE-2008-2956) - CVE-2008-2956 pidgin: memory leak in XML parser
Summary: CVE-2008-2956 pidgin: memory leak in XML parser
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2008-2956
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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URL: http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=C...
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-07-02 09:34 UTC by Tomas Hoger
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:25 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2010-12-23 21:27:00 UTC
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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.
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