CVE-2008-2956
Published Jul 1, 2008
Last updated 3 months ago
Overview
- Description
- 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."
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
- NVD status
- Modified
- CNA Tags
- disputed
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 5
- Impact score
- 2.9
- Exploitability score
- 10
- Vector string
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-399
Configurations
[
{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:pidgin:pidgin:2.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "DBC2EBF3-73A7-4542-8E9C-47A4241A224C"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]