CVE-2008-2955
Published Jul 1, 2008
Last updated 6 years ago
Overview
- Description
- 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.
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
- NVD status
- Modified
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 4.3
- Impact score
- 2.9
- Exploitability score
- 8.6
- Vector string
- AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-20
Configurations
[
{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:pidgin:pidgin:2.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "BEEFF420-2868-422B-BD22-9A5749C2398F"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]