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CVE-2008-2955

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.3 Published: 2008-07-01 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Pidgin Pidgin

Weakness Type

CWE-20

References