CVE-2008-2956

Publication date 1 July 2008

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

** DISPUTED ** 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.”

Read the notes from the security team

Status

No maintained releases are affected by this CVE.

Package Ubuntu Release Status
gaim 9.04 jaunty Not in release
8.10 intrepid Not in release
8.04 LTS hardy Not in release
7.10 gutsy Not in release
6.06 LTS dapper Ignored
pidgin 9.04 jaunty Ignored
8.10 intrepid Ignored
8.04 LTS hardy Ignored
7.04 feisty Not in release
6.06 LTS dapper Not in release

Notes

mdeslaur

as of 2008-11-20, has not been fixed by upstream AFAICT as of 2009-07-03, has not been fixed by upstream AFAICT upstream is ignoring this. let’s ignore it too.