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CVE-2008-2956
Memory leak in Pidgin 2.0.0, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via…
Medium5.0EPSS 2.0%
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- redhat
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."
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.0% · top 19% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
Affected products
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References (7)
- 29985 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20080627 CVE Request (pidgin) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- 31387 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_transferred
- 20080806 rPSA-2008-0246-1 gaim (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- http://crisp.cs.du.edu/?q=ca2007-1 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0246 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2647 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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